cifsdd 8 Samba System Administration tools &doc.version;
cifsdd convert and copy a file over SMB
`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.