17 Sep
2024
17 Sep
'24
2 a.m.
On Monday, September 16th, 2024 at 4:24 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 09:16:17AM +1000, Dave
Horsfall wrote:
Never seen that either, POSIX doesn't suggest any support for that either, with this
in the RATIONALE section:
---QUOTE---
The OPTIONS section is listed as "None" because there are no options recognized
by historical dd utilities. Certainly, many of the operands could have been designed to
use the Utility Syntax Guidelines, which would have resulted in the classic hyphenated
option letters. In this version of this volume of POSIX.1-2024, dd retains its curious
JCL-like syntax due to the large number of applications that depend on the historical
implementation.
---END QUOTE---
- Matt G.
On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Lyndon Nerenberg
(VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote:
Not a penguin thing on current xubuntu. Oh come on Rob, you should know that for anyone
over the age of 50, the
moment you see 'dd' your brain automatically switches to JCL mode.
Indeed, but no "dd" I know has "-if" etc; is that a Penguin thing?