I can't believe such an obvious bug would exist this long, but on
the other hand the test is so simple I can't see where it's user
error.
dd, when reading from stdin or from a named pipe sometimes (but
not always) reads a random number of records a bit less then what
it should.
I tried it l
o the file. Instead of doing
stat * do stat ./* or if the file is named -something, do stat
./-something. The leading "./" (which stands for "Current directory)
comes in front of the dash and so stat doesn't think it's a parameter or
option.
Jesse Gordon
the
format. The average sys admin just assumes the most simple date
format in the world would also work the same way.
Since -d @1234 is so useful, and since it uncharacteristically
requires an arbitrary prefix code, I think that it would be a
very good to put it in all forms of documentation, even where the
dozens of other obvious uses are not documented.
Thanks & have a great day,
Jesse Gordon
