Why strings command won't stop?
Linux noob here, the strings command behaves weirdly, apparently it doesn't stop writing to a file even if drive run out of space. or perhaps I'm missing something?
I run the following:
# strings /dev/urandom > random.txt
this was keep running and didn't stop even after filling the disk (a regular usb flash).
then to be quicker I created a ramdisk and tried again the same command. it also didn't stop.
I understand that urandom is't a regular file and also strings output is redirected, however in both cases above, the cat command reported the error when there was no more space.
# cat /dev/urandom > random.txt
cat: write error: No space left on device
q: Is this normal behavior of strings? if so, why?
q: where the data is written after no more space left?
Thank you.
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Linux noob here, the strings command behaves weirdly, apparently it doesn't stop writing to a file even if drive run out of space. or perhaps I'm missing something?
I run the following:
# strings /dev/urandom > random.txt
this was keep running and didn't stop even after filling the disk (a regular usb flash).
then to be quicker I created a ramdisk and tried again the same command. it also didn't stop.
I understand that urandom is't a regular file and also strings output is redirected, however in both cases above, the cat command reported the error when there was no more space.
# cat /dev/urandom > random.txt
cat: write error: No space left on device
q: Is this normal behavior of strings? if so, why?
q: where the data is written after no more space left?
Thank you.
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Linux noob here, the strings command behaves weirdly, apparently it doesn't stop writing to a file even if drive run out of space. or perhaps I'm missing something?
I run the following:
# strings /dev/urandom > random.txt
this was keep running and didn't stop even after filling the disk (a regular usb flash).
then to be quicker I created a ramdisk and tried again the same command. it also didn't stop.
I understand that urandom is't a regular file and also strings output is redirected, however in both cases above, the cat command reported the error when there was no more space.
# cat /dev/urandom > random.txt
cat: write error: No space left on device
q: Is this normal behavior of strings? if so, why?
q: where the data is written after no more space left?
Thank you.
linux shell string
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Linux noob here, the strings command behaves weirdly, apparently it doesn't stop writing to a file even if drive run out of space. or perhaps I'm missing something?
I run the following:
# strings /dev/urandom > random.txt
this was keep running and didn't stop even after filling the disk (a regular usb flash).
then to be quicker I created a ramdisk and tried again the same command. it also didn't stop.
I understand that urandom is't a regular file and also strings output is redirected, however in both cases above, the cat command reported the error when there was no more space.
# cat /dev/urandom > random.txt
cat: write error: No space left on device
q: Is this normal behavior of strings? if so, why?
q: where the data is written after no more space left?
Thank you.
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