[clug] using 'dd' in a pipeline

[steve jenkin]

feof(3) from the stdio library detects EOF.
Not sure about the interaction of syscalls for open/read and library calls to stdio streams.

The function feof() tests the end-of-file indicator for the stream pointed to by stream

On 24 Nov 2014, at 1:56 pm, steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> I’ve been looking at deliberate MD5 collisions and went to write a simple script based on ‘dd’, only to fall flat on my face - detecting ‘end of file’ from STDIN.
> 
> ‘dd’ doesn’t consider EOF as an error and returns “success”.
> 

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