Re: suggestion: /etc/dd.conf

[Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils)]

On 2020-04-28 02:14, turgut kalfaoğlu wrote:
> I would like to suggest and in fact volunteer to create a conf file
> option to 'dd'.

By doing that you're replacing function arguments with global variables, 
which is a bad idea.

> It has dozens of hard to remember options, and there are some that I
> would like to use all the time.

Look into shell functions and aliases.

> 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.

It's unlikely that this option is required; have you tried it without?

To make sure any buffered writes are flushed, do a "sync" after the 
entire dd operation.