On 1/21/21 4:48 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > - cat, as Padraig pointer out doesn't have an option to append. > - dd doesn't either (AFAIK).
yes, it has: dd oflag=append conv=notrunc of=SOMEFILE > - dd is quite dangerous, and I would avoid it for simple tasks. well, every tool which can overwrite something could be considered dangerous then, right? ;-) > - I read on stackexchange (I couldn't find the thread now) > that the dd performance was lower, but I don't remember well. well, maybe you'd want to play with a larger blocksize? dd ... bs=1m iflag=fullblock Have a nice day, Berny
