> I never would expect something like cp xxx /dev/sda to actually work. Thinking about it, why should cp even support something like that? I'll copy files but I

> I never would expect something like cp xxx /dev/sda to actually work. Thinking about it, why should cp even support something like that? I'll copy files but I'll also DESTROY YOUR SHIT if you say so? That's the beauty of Unix. Everything is a file. Thus every program that can work with files, can in fact work with everything. It's actually very liberating.