Re: [Tutor] pipes and redirecting

2014-05-28 Thread Adam Gold
> On 27/05/14 21:01, Adam Gold wrote: > >> "dd if=/home/adam/1 bs=4k conv=noerror,notrunc,sync | pbzip2 > 1.img.bz2" >> >> The first thing I do is break it into two assignments > > And that's the start of the problem because it should be three: > The first command, the second command and the outp

Re: [Tutor] pipes and redirecting

2014-05-28 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 27May2014 21:01, Adam Gold wrote: I'm trying to run the following unix command from within Python as opposed to calling an external Bash script (the reason being I'm doing it multiple times within a for loop which is running through a list): "dd if=/home/adam/1 bs=4k conv=noerror,notrunc,syn

Re: [Tutor] pipes and redirecting

2014-05-28 Thread Alan Gauld
On 27/05/14 21:01, Adam Gold wrote: "dd if=/home/adam/1 bs=4k conv=noerror,notrunc,sync | pbzip2 > 1.img.bz2" The first thing I do is break it into two assignments And that's the start of the problem because it should be three: The first command, the second command and the output file. ddIf