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<b_jonas> `` gzip -dc share/mtg/All\\ Sets-2017-09-20.zip > share/mtg/allsets-2017-09-20.zip
author | HackBot |
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date | Wed, 04 Oct 2017 11:30:07 +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.