Re: dd problems

In article <49dc076b$0$5502$bbae4d71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bill Cunningham
<nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|| I never thought I would fully know how to use dd but I guess I'm not
|| able too. I want to skip over the first 252 bytes of an object file to get
|| to the first section header which is 40 bytes long. I've tried
|| bs,ibs,obs,skip I keep creating an empty file. How can I get this
|| information by using dd ?

dd bs=1 skip=252 count=40
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