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<wib_jonas> `` f=/hackenv/bin/dateu; >$f echo $\'#!/bin/bash\\nset -e\\nif (( 1 < $# )); then echo "dateu error: too many command-line arguments. Usage: dateu datetimestring"; exit 2; fi\\nexec date -u ${1:+-d "$1"} "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%3N %z %Z %B %-e %A %G-W%V-%u"\'; chmod a+x "$f"
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Wed, 03 Jul 2024 18:15:24 +0100
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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.