{"id":5915,"date":"2011-03-15T17:06:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beautifulwork.org\/?p=4727"},"modified":"2011-03-15T17:06:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:06:19","slug":"dd-oflagappend-does-not-append","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/15\/dd-oflagappend-does-not-append\/","title":{"rendered":"dd oflag=append : imply notrunc, or improve documentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/74521-debian-bug-373736-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/74521-debian-bug-373736-2.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"debian.bug-373736\" width=\"406\" height=\"226\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4730\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a>http:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=373736<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>\nOn Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:18:46PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:\n&gt;\n&gt; You probably want conv=notrunc\n\nuh! thanks for the tip\n\nbut still I see some kind of bug in this, lets say\na documentation bug\n\n1) conv=???? is supposed to be\n   \"convert the file as per the comma separated symbol list\"\n\n IMHO, \"do not truncate the output file\" is not a conversion\n in any possible imaginable way; I would understand more\n if it was  \"oflag=notrunc\"\n\n2) what is the use of  \"oflag=append\" when one forgets\n \"conv=notrunc\"\n\nSo I propose some improvements:\n\na) add oflag=notrunc\n (leaving conv=notrunc for back compatibility)\n\nb) oflag=append implies conv=notrunc\n\nc) a line may be added in the man page, saying that\n oflag=append is useless w\/o conv=notrunc\n\nI will retitle the bug\n\na.\n\n--\nAndrea Mennucc\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=373736 On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:18:46PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: &gt; &gt; You probably want conv=notrunc uh! thanks for the tip but still I see some kind of bug in this, lets say a documentation bug 1) conv=???? is supposed to be &#8220;convert the file as per the comma separated symbol list&#8221; IMHO, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/15\/dd-oflagappend-does-not-append\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;dd oflag=append : imply notrunc, or improve documentation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[631],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}