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<shachaf> mkx bin/randbin//grep \'\' "$(ls -1 bin | shuf -n 1)"
author HackBot
date Thu, 13 Oct 2016 22:40:23 +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.