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Comment by derefr

3 years ago

If the command is meant to stream through something really fast by using a large buffer size, then prepending a cat(1) will limit the incoming buffer size to ~4k.

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vram22  3 years ago

Interesting.

Maybe use dd with one of its blocksize options, then?

Not at a terminal, can't check.

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