The e2image manpage describes when and how you can write the e2image output to stdout with -. This doesn't work in reverse: if you try to pass - as the source device e2image doesn't do the standard -- trick to get it to treat the rest of the arguments as literals instead of additional flags. I'm not familiar with the implementation of e2image, maybe you need a seekable input to do your work. In that case could you document this in the manpage? I see comments about the -r mode and using pipes as output but nothing about pipes as input. But if it is possible to source the input from a pipe could you please consider adding support for it to e2image? -- David Gilman :DG<
