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		photon-torpedo on May 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Useless Use of "dd" (2015) Careful, your #2 and #3 are incorrect -- skip and seek operate with blocks, not bytes. So your #2 would copy 32 bytes after the first 32kB of data, and #3 would write 512 bytes at position 5120k.

_flux on May 23, 2022 | [–]

Btw, there are iflags in Gnu dd to work in bytes as well. I have ddbytes aliased to dd iflag=count_bytes,skip_bytes oflag=seek_bytes .

dredmorbius on May 23, 2022 | [–]

Thanks. Most of that was from memory and not tested.

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