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<b_jonas> `` f=/hackenv/bin/botloop; >$f echo $\'#!/bin/sh\\necho no\'; chmod -c a+x "$f"
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Wed, 01 Jan 2020 09:35:29 +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.