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Re: Is it possible to dd from a position in a file to the end?


From: Alain D D Williams
Subject: Re: Is it possible to dd from a position in a file to the end?
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:51:00 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10)

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 01:46:32PM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi, I don't see a way to specify "END" in dd. I don't want to count
> the length a file in another command. Is there a way to let dd dump
> from a given location to the end? Thanks.

Use skip to position to where you want to start copying from, then don't specify
a count and dd will copy the rest of the file.

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