I've run into situations recently where it would be convenient to buffer X
blocks of data in memory on the shell, and I feel that dd would be the most
convenient place to do that - as a general binary data flow control utility.
being able to do (sa)
dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=10k buff=1M | cdrecord -data -
would be nice. Yes, cdreocrd has its own build-in buffer, but that's only
useful in cdrecord, and this would be useful to many programs and applications
where you need to ensure a constant output of data from a somewhat shakey
source.
I've always envisioned dd as kind of a valve. :)
Anyhow, good work.
--
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