-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just wanted to point out that my post about copying lemonparty.jpg is the only one that works natively on Windows, the target platform based on the use of "of=\\.\f:". ;P
Points for the person who figures out how to do this with a Windows FOR loop. - -Josh Grymoire wrote: >> dd if=lemonparty.jpg of=\\.\f: bs=512 > > first of all, there is no need to use if= and of= - that's provided as > a backwards compatability to JCL (HELLO! we're talking punched cards) > Use < and < instead. > > i.e. > > dd <lemonparty.jpg >\\.\f: bs=512 > > And yes, when the end of file is reached, dd will halt. > It does not loop the data. > Perhaps you can > > 1) seek blocks before writing > > 2) Use a bigger file > > For number 1, I think you can do something like (untested) > > count=0 > while [ $count -lt 500 ] > do > dd <lemonparty.jpg >\\.\f: seeek=$count bs=512 > count=`expr $count + 1` > done > > > For #2, you can use any of these sources of data: > yes | dd bs=512 count=500 >\\.\f: > no | dd bs=512 count=500 >\\.\f: > dd bs=512 count=500 </dev/zero >\\.\f: > dd bs=512 count=500 </dev/urandom >\\.\f: > > > Usually people use the last one. > > And they repeat it if they want to make sure the data has been overwritten. > > > I suppose you could do > while true > do > cat lemonparty.jpg > done | dd bs=512 count=500 >\\.\f: > > > Hope that helps > (new member here - first post) > > Grymoire > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkpNI4MACgkQapC4Te3oxYxl4ACfVa5Q1gwsXdVoyqsUkMS9WgeI Y8AAoIzcsWhK3C3tlS6hj60yN6+yW22j =Ss8C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
