hyamamoto / dd-opt

A utility for optimising the value of the "bs" option to the Unix utility "dd" by benchmarking

dd-opt

dd-opt - a utility for optimising the value of the "bs" option to the Unix utility "dd" by benchmarking.

Installation

dd-opt currently requires Ruby 1.8.7 or newer.

Download the source files, e.g. by clicking the "ZIP" button at the dd-opt project page on GitHub, unzip them if necessary, and copy them to a suitable folder on your computer.

Using the command line, navigate to that folder and invoke dd-opt as follows, to get help on how to use dd-opt:

ruby dd-opt.rb --help

Copyright and licensing

All source code in dd-opt (and any binary derivatives made therefrom) is:

• (c) Sam Pablo Kuper unless stated otherwise, and
• available under the terms of the Gnu Affero General Public License Version 3 (see license.txt) unless stated otherwise.