[clug] 'dd' command detecting EOF: an example script

[Steve Jenkin]

Peter,

not how I read the man-page, they are seriously underselling its capability.
This segmented compression is something like what I want to do.

Thanks very much!

cheers
steve

> On 15 May 2019, at 18:02, Peter Barker <pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> 
> You know, that's the way I initially read it too.  Turns out $FILE is the *output* filename!
> 
> But check out "split" here: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/split-invocation.html <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/split-invocation.html>
> 
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> ‘--filter=command’
> 
>    With this option, rather than simply writing to each output file, write through a pipe to the specified shell command for each output file. command should use the $FILE environment variable, which is set to a different output file name for each invocation of the command. For example, imagine that you have a 1TiB compressed file that, if uncompressed, would be too large to reside on disk, yet you must split it into individually-compressed pieces of a more manageable size. To do that, you might run this command:
> 
>    xz -dc BIG.xz | split -b200G --filter='xz > $FILE.xz' - big-
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> Yours,
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> Peter Barker                          |   Programmer,Sysadmin,Geek.
> pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au <mailto:pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au>	      |   You need a bigger hammer.
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