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<ais523> ` sed -i -e \'s/unzip(@_)/unzip(@ARGV)/\' bin/unzip
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Tue, 16 Jul 2019 21:37:33 +0000
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Block devices are a concession made in Unix to make raw hard disks and magnetic tape have a similar interface to regular files and terminals. Since magnetic tapes can't write individual bytes, only entire blocks, the interface isn't exactly the same, thus the dreaded dd obs= option was born.