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<fizzie> mkx bin/wiseguys//hlnp -T \'{desc}\\n\' wisdom | cut -d\' \' -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sed -e \'s/^ *//\' | sort -nr | head -n ${1:-10}
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Thu, 14 Feb 2019 17:13:14 +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.