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<fizzie> ` sed -e \'s/wisdom/bin/g\' < /hackenv/bin/grwp > /hackenv/bin/grbp; chmod a+x /hackenv/bin/grbp
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Sat, 30 Nov 2019 01:56:40 +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.