Re: suggestion: /etc/dd.conf

[Erik Auerswald]

Hello turgut,

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:14:04PM +0300, turgut kalfaoğlu wrote:
> I would like to suggest and in fact volunteer to create a conf file
> option to 'dd'.
> 
> It has dozens of hard to remember options, and there are some that I
> would like to use all the time.
> 
> For example, I am currently doing:
> 
> $  sudo dd if=CentOS-6.10-x86_64-LiveDVD.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4096 conv=fsync
> 
> right now, and I have to lookup the conv=fsync option every time I
> want to write to a USB drive.
> 
> Any thoughts?

You could consider using an alias, e.g.:

    alias ddusb "dd bs=4096 conv=fsync"

You could add this to your shell startup files, e.g., the ~/.bashrc file.
Some GNU/Linux distributions read the file ~/.bash_aliases if it exists,
with the intent to place alias definitions there.

Thanks,
Erik