On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:54:58AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > 5. dd again, this time useing a very large count, and feed that to > gzip if needed, otherwise straight to tar.
Minor improvement: instead of "using a very large count", simply don't provide a count= argument at all: dd bs=32k skip=1 | whatever Without a count=, dd will run till end-of-file, and not worry about how many blocks it's copied. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau