Package: coreutils Version: 5.96-3 Severity: normal hi
AFAICT, from the man page
...
oflag=FLAGS
write as per the comma separated symbol list
...
Each FLAG symbol may be:
append append mode (makes sense only for output)
..........
but in this example
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
$ echo hi there | dd oflag=append of=salute
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
9 bytes (9 B) copied, 0,000739 seconds, 12,2 kB/s
$ echo nice to see you | dd oflag=append of=salute
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
16 bytes (16 B) copied, 0,00434 seconds, 3,7 kB/s
$ cat salute
nice to see you
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
you see that dd is not appending to the output
a.
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Andrea Mennucc
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