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<b_jonas> `` set -e; f=/hackenv/bin/STOP; >$f echo $\'#!/bin/sh\\nrm -vf /hackenv/bin/bfbotquine\'; chmod -c a+x "$f"
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Fri, 29 Nov 2019 23:32:11 +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.