oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ?
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fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Tue Oct 23 09:24:05 PDT 2007
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:42:46 +0330
"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 ?
> >
> 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?).
>
is it any different to
dd if=/blah >> /bleh
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