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Re: Duplicate USB Drives



 Matt Kowalski wrote: 
> Does anyone know how to duplicate a source USB thumb drive to multiple 
> target drives in Linux?  I was thinking *dd* should work but how do I 
> specify multiple outputs for each device? 

dd only allows you to specify one output, so you'll need to write a for-loop 
in your favorite shell scripting language. 

Or, you could get clever can use a chain of tee commands (note that by not 
specifying an output device, it defaults to stdout): 

  dd if=/dev/source | tee /dev/dest1 | tee /dev/dest2 ... 

HTH, 
Matt 

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