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<hppavilion[1]> ` sed -i \'s#the universe, #the universe, the triverse, #\' wisdom/tanebvention
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date Mon, 10 Oct 2016 18:26:16 +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.