On Sat, 2018-09-08 at 08:10 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 07Sep2018 15:56, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 09/07/2018 03:34 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > > > On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 16:37:49 -0400 Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > The line for the cloning process in my g4l is like this. > > > dd bs=1M if=$clonesource 2>/dev/null |jetcat-mod -f 5000 -p $clonesize > > > 2>$progout |dd bs=1M of=$clonetarget 2>/dev/null & > > [...] > > > Uses a dialog script to set the variables, and then runs the copy command in > > > background. The foreground script takes the data written to the progout file > > > and displays a progress bar via dialog. > > [...] > > Michael D. Setzer II, > > What is the purpose of inserting the utility > > jetcat-mod between the 2 dd commands? > > Apologies, I think I've lost track of the attributions. > > I'd expect jetcat to (a) provide an agressive buffering beyond what a pipe > provides (letting the first dd get ahead more) and (b) report progress. Never heard of jetcat and it appears to be unknown to dnf. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
