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Hello, |
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On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: |
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>David Haller wrote: |
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[..] |
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>> Compile with: |
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>> gcc $CFLAGS -o ones ones.c |
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>> or |
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>> gcc $(portageq envvar CFLAGS) -o ones ones.c |
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>> and use/test e.g. like |
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>> |
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>> ./ones | dd of=/dev/null bs=8M count=1000 iflag=fullblock |
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[..] |
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>I got it to compile, at least it created a file named ones anyway. What |
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>I'm unclear about, where is the if= for dd in the command? All the |
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>commands I've seen before has a if= and a of=. The if for input and of |
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>for output or target. |
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==== man 1 dd ==== |
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if=FILE |
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read from FILE instead of stdin |
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[..] |
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of=FILE |
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write to FILE instead of stdout |
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note the stuff after 'instead' ;) |
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>I'm assuming that if I want to target sdb, I'd |
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>replace null with /dev/sdb. |
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Yes. |
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>As I've posted before, even my scripting skills are minimal. Surprised |
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>I got it to compile even. |
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Well, you could copy & paste and on gentoo, there is bound to be a |
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'gcc' ;) |
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>something. I placed all this in the /root directory. I'm assuming I |
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>can copy paste the commands above while in /root to make it work? |
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Yes. Or put 'ones' in /root/bin/ or even /usr/local/bin. Depending on |
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if you expect to use the program later on. But if it's just for this |
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once it's fine in /root/ alongside the sourcecode. |
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HTH, |
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-dnh |
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