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Bash trick of the day



Robert La Ferla wrote:
> I've created my own similar scripts to do the same thing - mostly out of
> frustration with MythTV and the desire for something simple and reliable.

Sounds like next month's meeting will be *quite* popular.

>> I can use this in conjunction with "dd if=/dev/video0
>> of=mycaptured.mpeg" to capture video for a given time, for instance.
> 
> Any advantage to using dd over cat?  I simply do "cat /dev/video >
> file.mpg"

Not that I know of.  The examples I saw used dd, that's all.

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