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minus-squareLeFantome@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·7 days agoGNU is really its own thing and not reallyPOSIX anymore. So GNU is right even if they are wrong.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-26 days agoIf you pipe, dd is the wrong tool anyway. Replace with cp or cat. dd is a fine scalpel but a bad shovel. Useless use of dd
minus-squareeutampieri@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·6 days ago In both these cases, dd serves no real purpose. It’s purely a superstitious charm trying to ensure safe passage of the data. You can see how silly this is when you replace dd with the functionally equivalent cat: cat /dev/sda | pv | cat > /dev/sdb 😂
GNU is really its own thing and not reallyPOSIX anymore. So GNU is right even if they are wrong.
If you pipe, dd is the wrong tool anyway. Replace with cp or cat. dd is a fine scalpel but a bad shovel.
Useless use of dd
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