From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 22 19:26:13 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619D916A417 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:26:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 013C513C480 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:26:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) id l9MJ4m71052436; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:04:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:04:48 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Juri Mianovich Message-ID: <20071022190448.GA3496@dan.emsphone.com> References: <398795.23954.qm@web45616.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <398795.23954.qm@web45616.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:26:13 -0000 In the last episode (Oct 22), Juri Mianovich said: > 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 ? Why not "cat /blah >> /bleh" ? dd is usually used on raw device nodes, and appending doesn't make sense there. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com