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satimis

01-05-2004 03:08 AM

Working examples of dd command

Hi folks,

Where can I find good examples of "dd command" (dd - convert and copy a file)

I could not find good working examples on 'man dd' and 'info dd'

TIA

B.R.
satimis

XavierP

01-05-2004 03:17 AM

Here are a number of examples. I was hoping to give you one very good page, but as DD is such a versatile tool, have a read of all of them!

aaa	01-05-2004 07:23 AM

Code:

dd if=[input] of=[output] bs=[blocksize in bytes (2048) or in kilobytes (2k)] count=[number of blocks]

Copies whole floppy to file:
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/floppyinafile
Copies first sector (512 bytes) to file:
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/floppysector bs=512 count=1
See related post that was near this one.

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