Rogier Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:01:45AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
>> I figured there'd be some piece of posix at the bottom of it. :) I
>> wonder if the documentation should better reflect that. (The info page
>> says only that "when dd completes it outputs the final statistics; maybe
>> something like "when dd completes normally or is killed by SIGINT it
>> outputs the final statistics"?)
>
> When I use dd to fill a floppy, (I could use "cp", but dd outputs the
> size of the data copied, which helps me verify things went as planned),
> I want to see 1440 blocks copied.
You were reporting that this didn't work the way
you expected:
> $ dd if=/dev/zero | dd count=100 of=/dev/null
The real solution is just "don't do that (i.e., don't use the
unnecessary pipe). Do this instead:
$ dd if=/dev/zero count=100 of=/dev/null
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