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<shachaf> ` mkx \'bin/Binary//echo "$@"\'; mkx \'bin/binary//Binary file bin/binary matches\'
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date Thu, 13 Oct 2016 22:56:42 +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.