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<fizzie> ` sed -e \'s|^ ||\' < \'wisdom/fun fact \' > \'wisdom/fun fact\'; rm \'wisdom/fun fact \'
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date Wed, 01 Nov 2017 19:38:34 +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.