The output of dd always goes to the device or file specified for of= Example: dd if=/dev/hda of=something My problem here is I don't know how you can specify that of is to be piped into bzip2. Some programs use the `-' to represent the standard pipe. in which case, you might be able to say: dd if=/dev/hda of=-; bzipz - Sorry, don't have experience with bzip2's command parms but hopefully this makes sense in concept. On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to image a partition with dd, and pass the output to bzip2. However, bzip2 tells me that input file file.img cannot be found. Can someone tell me the correct cyntax please? > I'm doing the following: "dd if=/dev/hda1 |bzip2 -9 file.img" > Thanks in advance for any help. > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
