On 18Jan2008 18:30, brusberri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| --- In [email protected], "Indika Bandara Udagedara"
| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > hi say i want to write
| > 10 bytes with values 1, 2, 3, ... to a file just like with fwrite
| how
| > can i do with GNU tools
| >
| > tried this for 1, ..., 10, 11,
| > echo 1 | dd of=out bs=1 count=1
| >
| > but when it gets to 10, 11, ..
| > only the first decimal place is written.
| >
| > is there any way that i can pass a 1 byte int value to dd or some
| > other tool?
|
| excuse me, i don't understand why you have to put bs=1
| what do you need this for?
Because he wants to write _1_ byte. bs=1 * count=1 == 1 byte.
| btw are you writing to a raw device or to a formatted disk?
It probably doesn't matter for this. I think he's just writing to a
regular file, actually.
I would use python or perl for this task, eg:
perl -e 'printf("%c", 12)'
writes a single byte of value 12.
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