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dd was always a big special to me. It's the only command-line utility that I know that takes the simple approach to argument parsing. I don't know why everyone
by zimbatm 11y ago
dd was always a big special to me. It's the only command-line utility that I know that takes the simple approach to argument parsing. I don't know why everyone wants to prefix their arguments with --
- pixelbeat 11y agoAs mentioned in the online manual at http://gnu.org/software/coreutils/dd http://gnu.org/software/coreutils/dd that command line syntax is inspired by the DD (data definition) statement of OS/360 JCL
- kazinator 11y agoFor one thing, nobody wants to type: mv opt=force old=oldname.txt new=/path/to/new.txt In dd it doesn't matter because it's used for "surgical" jobs where you have to think very carefully about several simultaneous numeric details.