oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ?

[Oliver Fromme]

Bahman M. <b.movaqar at adempiere.org> 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 suggest to write a small alias or shell function if
you need to use such commands often.  The following
shell function (for sh, zsh or bash) will do:

ddappend()
{
	dd if="$1" of="$2" conv=notrunc seek=$(stat -f%z -- "$2")
}

Then you can simply write:  $ ddappend /blah /bleh

Best regards
   Oliver

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