Comment on Bat v0.26.0parentComments−bayindirh10moFrom my experience, --output is a minority in my workflow. Which tools do you use need --output?−oneeyedpigeon10moCoincidentally, I went looking for some the other day and there were very few. Everything that uses --output for this purpose, that I could find, was a compiler.−onestay4210modd an company require if= and of=, if that counts−bayindirh10modd doesn't require either if= or of=. It'll read from stdin (or pipe) if you omit if= and it'll write to stdout happily if you omit of=.From the man page: if=FILE - read from FILE instead of stdin. of=FILE - write to FILE instead of stdout. So you can do: cat x.iso | dd oflag=direct bs=4096kB | /dev/sdc
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From my experience, --output is a minority in my workflow. Which tools do you use need --output?
Coincidentally, I went looking for some the other day and there were very few. Everything that uses --output for this purpose, that I could find, was a compiler.
dd an company require if= and of=, if that counts
dd doesn't require either if= or of=. It'll read from stdin (or pipe) if you omit if= and it'll write to stdout happily if you omit of=.
From the man page:
So you can do: