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Things you didn't know about dd(1)
... i guess: I tried to find a way on how to create a 10MB disk image
with dd(1) but found that the size specifiers for bs= are not really
portable, at least as long as you don't want to give full (big) numbers.
NetBSD has 'm' as size multiplier, Linux has 'M', and the Single Unix
Specification has no opinion on the topic. Doh.
But reading
the SUSv3 dd(1) page
again and a bit closer, I found that you can use the following for "bs=" (and some others): ``Two or more positive decimal numbers (with or without k or b) separated by x, specifying the product of the indicated values''
I.e. that the following command just does the right thing in a portable,
standard conforming way:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=10x1024x1024 count=1 of=empty
[Tags: dd, susv3, unix]
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