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Re: dd does not handle input from pipes correctly (coreutils-5.93)
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: dd does not handle input from pipes correctly (coreutils-5.93) |
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Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:25:42 +0100 |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to James Youngman on 11/18/2005 1:28 AM:
>> Many systems now include the 'buffer' program (I have it here on an
>> Ubuntu box). If you have it, try piping the data through 'buffer -z
>> 4096' (or whatever PIPE_BUF is on your machine if it's not 4096).
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> Is it worth adding buffer as one of the coreutils?
It's fine by me -- if others do all of the work :-)