piping output of dd through bzip2

Jason unleet at qwest.net
Mon Jan 14 19:58:43 EST 2002


ok, ok, gzip, bzip, bzip2, <insert your standard input to standard output 
compressor here>, whatever, they'll all work

On Monday January 14, 2002 05:46 pm, you wrote:
> Why should I use bzip if bzip2 gives better compression?
> Greg
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:57:06PM -0700, Jason wrote:
> > try it with 'bzip > windows.img'
> >
> > On Monday January 14, 2002 03:42 pm, you wrote:
> > > Ok, I've just tried the following using the format indicated.
> > >
> > > "dd if=/dev/hda1 |bzip2 -9 windows.img"
> > >
> > > The result was:
> > >
> > > bzip2: Can't open input file windows.img: No such file or directory.
> > > 9+0 records in
> > > 8+0 records out
> > >
> > >
> > > Greg
> >
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