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>people use "dd" a lot when all they need is "cat". Well, GNU dd has nice things like 'status=progress' and options for direct-I/O :)
by genpfault 7y ago
>people use "dd" a lot when all they need is "cat".
Well, GNU dd has nice things like 'status=progress' and options for direct-I/O :)
- gbin 7y agoOr the awesome progress viewer (pv command). This is cat with some feedback. I use it a lot to image stuff when the media is readable, if you have bad sectors you need some like ddrescue to image it.