On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:26:05AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote:
dd if=somebigfile | dd count=100 of=/dev/null
both dd's should report that they copied 100 records. This worked in
debian sarge. Debian Etch, the first dd stopped reporting the number
of records copied. The script I wrote then stopped working.
(The above is an example, my script of course used something else
than "dd count=100" to limit the size copied.)
I haven't replied yet because I'm not sure what to make of it. It
definitely does behave this way. Anyone else know if this was an
intentional change or a bug? I don't see anything obvious in the
changelog, and my reading of posix suggests that it's a bug; am I
missing something?
Mike Stone
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