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<wob_jonas> perl -e open$h,"<",($f="wisdom/font");local$/;$_=<$h>; s"& \\S+/twitter\\.com/\\S+""; if (1) { open $o,">",$f;print$o $_; } print substr $_,200;
author HackBot
date Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:02:27 +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.