> On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>
> > dd if=oldfile bs=1 iseek=1 | tr '\r' '\n' >newfile
>
> Rod,
>
> The dd version here (from GNU coreutils 8.25, 2016) does not have an iseek
> option, but it does have a seek option: seek=N skip N obs-sized blocks at
> start of output.
iseek is the same as skip, so:
dd if=oldfile bs=1 skip=1 | tr '\r' '\n' >newfile
> However, when I run that:
Please always paste your exact command, it is missing from here, but
I suspect it was:
dd if=oldfile bs=1 seek=1 | tr '\r' '\n' >newfile
And yes, that is going to generate an error as it did:
>
> dd: 'standard output': cannot seek: Illegal seek
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes copied, 7.0422e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
>
> Do I need that option?
Change iseek -> skip, not to seek, seek in gnu dd is == oseek.
And yes, that is the option that kills the first byte of the file.
--
Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org
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