Hello. Dan Heller wrote: > > On Sep 16, 9:32pm, Richard Dawe wrote: > > I don't really understand how a dd command-line is going to get very long. > > because of the number of files that can be on the command line... hence the > reason that dd accepts stdin.
I think you misunderstand what dd takes on stdin. From "info dd": "`dd' copies a file (from standard input to standard output, by default) with a changeable I/O block size, while optionally performing conversions on it." It does not take filenames on stdin. > > FWIW tar has an option to take filenames from a file. > > yes, and it also has an option to take filenames from stdin, which was > my entire point: many unix commands already do this, and the ones that > don't are more the exception to the rule. [snip] Um, you've provided one example: tar. Where are the others? Unless someone contributes a patch, I doubt the filenames-on-stdin feature will get added to coreutils (which incorporates fileutils). I expect Jim Meyering (the maintainer) is pretty busy already with existing coreutils work. Regards, -- Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ] _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
