Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
What I was trying to get at was more a question of if there's some deep technical reason for the lack of a /dev/one beyond the triviality of flipping the bits in a pipe.On 2003-01-30 00:25, Darren Pilgrim wrote:Why isn't there a /dev/one device to provide an infinite number of all-ones bytes?
Because it's easy to get any sequence of equal bytes by using just /dev/zero and tr(1). Try this command and check the output of hd(1) :-)
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=1 | tr '\0' '\777' | hd
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