Re: How to copy n bytes from stdin to stdout?

[Otto Moerbeek]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 07:38:49AM +0200, Daniel Hartmeier wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 12:11:52AM +0200, Maximilian Pichler wrote:
> 
> > I'm just wondering what these other utilities might be.
> 
> hexdump -v -n 1234567 -e '"%c"'
> 
> If the input doesn't contain backslashes (or something else, tr(1))
> 
>   vis -aoF6 | head -n 1234567 | unvis
> 
> Daniel

Variation that buffers the writes:

        dd ibs=1 count=n

Reads are still unbuffered though,

        -Otto