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Re: coreutils-5.92 - dd skip option completely broken
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: coreutils-5.92 - dd skip option completely broken |
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Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:35:27 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> I'd prefer that it go in tests/dd/skip-seek, partly because
> the name fits, and also because I want to move away from
> bourne-shell-based tests -- at least when it's easy to do so.
OK. However, I can't easily see how to modify that file to do the
test I want. Here's the shell-command test I'd like to run:
test "`echo abc | dd bs=1 skip=1 | cat`" = bc
where the output of "dd" is a pipe. But I don't offhand see how to do
that in tests/dd/skip-seek. (Sorry, my Perl is a bit rusty....)