On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, joe at smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
> Quoting Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se>:
>
[..]
>>
>> dd if=/dev/ioport bs=1 skip=$[0xbasehere] count=asmanyasyouwant | xxd
>>
>
> 3. What is the pipe xxd for?
>
The default output of dd is stdout, so it writes stdout to file xxd.
However, why not use of=xxd instead? Same result.
Russ