You are right Wright, I here by dub you king of the LemonWipe. :) Adrian
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Joshua Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > -----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 >
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