Name

cifsdd — convert and copy a file over SMB

Synopsis

cifsdd [OPERAND]...

cifsdd OPTION

DESCRIPTION

This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands.

bs=BYTES

read and write up to BYTES bytes at a time (default: 4096)

ibs=BYTES

read up to BYTES bytes at a time (default: 4096)

obs=BYTES

write BYTES bytes at a time (default: 4096)

if=FILE

read from FILE instead of stdin

of=FILE

write to FILE instead of stdout

count=N

copy only N input blocks

seek=N

skip N obs-sized blocks at start of output

skip=N

skip N ibs-sized blocks at start of input

direct

use direct I/O for data

sync

use synchronous writes

oplock

take oplocks on the input and output files

AUTHOR

The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.

The cifsdd manpage was written by Andreas Schneider.