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Old 2nd January 2017
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Originally Posted by alex_b83 View Post
GNU coreutils' dd accepts the count_bytes and skip_bytes input flag to more easily allow processing portions of a file....
And what about BSD OSes?
You can install gnu coreutils on OpenBSD, it is available as a package. The gnu version of dd is installed as /usr/local/bin/gdd to differentiate it from the BSD version of dd.
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