In the last episode (Oct 23), Oliver Fromme said: > Bahman M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2007-10-22 Juri Mianovich wrote: > > > I am used to using this command in Linux, using GNU > > > dd: > > > > > > dd if=/blah of=/bleh oflag=append conv=notrunc > > > > > > The problem is, FreeBSD 'dd' does not understand the > > > "oflag" argument. > > > > > > Is there some equivalent in the FreeBSD 'dd' syntax > > > that I can use, or am I forced to install GNU utils ? > > Of course, the easiest way is to do this: > > $ dd if=/blah >> /bleh > > If you cannot do that, please explain why. If you know > your reason, there might be an alternative way to do it. > > > dd if=/blah of=/bleh conv=notrunc seek=`ls -s /bleh | cut -f1 -d ' ' -` > > > > I don't know if any simpler way is possible (anyone?). > > $ dd if=/blah of=/bleh conv=notrunc seek=$(stat -f%z /bleh)
I don't think that will work, since seek's argument is in blocks. Even if you divide by 512 (or whatever you decide to set bs=), if the file you're appending do isn't a multiple of the blocksize, you'll end up chopping part of the end off. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"