On Monday 05 July 2004 19:54, Eric Siegerman wrote: >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.
Touche`!, I had forgotten that detail. Thanks for clarifying that. -- Cheers, Gene There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.