Re: [PATCH] Re: dd blocks/bytes at a time

[Jim Meyering]

Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I see that both freebsd6 and netbsd1.6 disallow the usage in
>> your test case:
>>   netbsd$ echo x | /bin/dd bs=3 ibs=10 obs=10 conv=sync | wc -c
>>   dd: ibs: illegal argument combination or already set
>>   0
>> Solaris 10 does what you propose.
>> Can anyone check other implementations?
>
> I can test oodles of systems (about six Unix flavors across almost a
> dozen OS/HW combinations), but I'm not clear what you are looking for.
> Should I just send the output from each system?

Yep, just run this (assuming your vendor-provided dd is in /bin/dd):

  echo x | /bin/dd bs=3 ibs=10 obs=10 conv=sync | wc -c