cli guru needed

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 10:34 -0700, Bazooka Joe wrote:
> Is there a way to combine these 2 commands to cut my time in half?
> 
> VBoxManage internalcommands  converttoraw file.vdi file.raw
> then I have to run
> dd if=file.raw of=/dev/sdb

Assuming the second line is correct (i.e. you really want to copy
file.raw bit-for-bit to a physical device), why not do it directly:

VBoxManage internalcommands  converttoraw file.vdi /dev/sdb

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