17 Sep
2024
17 Sep
'24
6:17 a.m.
I don't remember whether late Research Unix had -if, but Plan 9 certainly
did.
-rob
On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 10:06 AM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
On Monday, September 16th, 2024 at 4:24 PM, Larry
McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com>
wrote:
Not a penguin thing on current xubuntu.
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 Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 09:16:17AM +1000, Dave
Horsfall wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote:
>
> > 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?