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Huh, pleasantly surprised to learn that dd correctly handles the truncated final block of a not-multiple-of-512-byte file; could have sworn that didn't work at
by a1369209993 6y ago
Huh, pleasantly surprised to learn that dd correctly handles the truncated final block of a not-multiple-of-512-byte file; could have sworn that didn't work at some point.
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- dfox 6y agoSUS specifies that dd should do the "right thing" with input with non-integer number of blocks input, that is pad it with zeros if conv=sync, just pass through shorter otherwise.
- a1369209993 6y ago> SUS specifies that dd should do the "right thing" A example the C standard could stand to learn from, then.