dd: disk destroyer
dd: disk destroyer
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Commands like
ddare the best. Good ole greybeard-era spells with arcane syntax and the power to casually wipe out the whole universe (from their perspective ofc) if used haphazardly or not in respectful manner.-
What do you mean? Explicitly having to set
if=andof=is way harder to screw up than mixing up the order of arguments for e.g.cp.-
I could swear the argument order to "ln" swaps every now and then!
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Unless you forget what if and of mean. With
cpit's simply "cp what where". Never had problems remembering that.-
is it really hard to remember infile and outfile?
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No, but you're just typing if and of, not infile and outfile, and the letters are right next to each other on a qwerty kbd. One can haphazardly misuse a lot of commands, it's just that some commands may lead to nastier outcomes than others.
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I never had any problems with
cpeither. But the post makes it seem likeddis somehow more error prone, which makes no sense to me-
Well, usually dd is not used as often as cp, so there's a bigger chance of messing up the parameters, unless you're careful and rtfm first.
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Computer equivalent of vacuum decay in our universe...
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