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<b_jonas> `` cat share/dict/12dicts/American/2of12inf-part?.txt > share/dict/12dicts/American/2of12inf.txt
author | HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org> |
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date | Sat, 03 Aug 2019 12:51:37 +0000 |
parents | 272663b31668 |
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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.