cifsdd - Man Page

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​.

Info

10/01/2026 Samba 4.25.0 System Administration tools