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<wob_jonas> perl -eopen$i,"<",($f="wisdom/aristotle");$_=<$i>; s/(fifth) kind of vitreous/$1/ or die; if (1) { open$o,">",$f; print$o $_ or die; } print substr$_,200;
author HackBot
date Mon, 01 Jan 2018 18:01:49 +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.