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<int-e> ` mv {bin,lib}/morse-decode; echo \'#!/hackenv/bin/shebang_args_or_input /hackenv/lib/morse-decode\' > bin/morse-decode; chmod +x bin/morse-decode
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date Thu, 04 Jan 2018 23:48:26 +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.