> > > $ dd if=/dev/zero | dd count=100 of=/dev/null > > "Of course, the two dd's are unneccesary, and this could be done with > one dd. In practise, the consumer (second dd) is another program that > exits when it's had enough data. The output of (the first) dd is then > used to extract the approximate amount of data copied."
After having read through things again instead of saying the above I would now have used this test case to reproduce the issue. This is clearer test for it. $ dd if=/dev/zero | head --bytes 1024 > /dev/null 129+0 records in 128+0 records out 65536 bytes transferred in 0.037618 seconds (1742140 bytes/sec) Older versions of dd produced the above output. Starting with version 5.90 dd no longer outputs those statistics on SIGPIPE. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
