On Monday 05 July 2004 19:54, Eric Siegerman wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:54:58AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> 5. dd again, this time useing a very large count, and feed that to
>> gzip if needed, otherwise straight to tar.
>
>Minor improvement: instead of "using a very large count", simply
>don't provide a count= argument at all:
>    dd bs=32k skip=1 | whatever
>
>Without a count=, dd will run till end-of-file, and not worry
>about how many blocks it's copied.

Touche`!,  I had forgotten that detail.  Thanks for clarifying that.

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