16 Sep
2024
16 Sep
'24
4:29 a.m.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 08:15:34AM +1000, Rob Pike wrote:
For me the fascinating thing about dd is that people
tended to use the JCL
notation for its arguments even after the Unix style was made available.
That is, people prefer "dd if=foo" rather than "dd -if foo" or even
the
obviously easiest "dd <foo".
Muscle memory. dd is weird but you sort of get used to it and then just
do it how you always have.