The author doesn't even give correct invocations of dd (on BSD, at least, for their last example with head). I certainly agree the syntax of the arguments is s

The author doesn't even give correct invocations of dd (on BSD, at least, for their last example with head). I certainly agree the syntax of the arguments is strange, due to its age, but I don't agree that learning it is difficult or a waste of time. All I've learned is that the author doesn't like dd well enough to learn it.