no need to even do that, dd's output only goes to 'of' if the of= parameter is specified, otehrwise it copies to standard output. all you would need is: dd if=/dev/hda | bzip <whatever> replace <whatever> with the command line parameters needed for bzip to output to a file (refer to 'man bzip' for details). > 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.
