My main use of dd is when redirect doesn't have access. E.g. "tar cf - . | ssh foo 'sudo dd of=/some/path/blah.tar'". Not the best of examples, but it comes u

My main use of dd is when redirect doesn't have access. E.g. "tar cf - . | ssh foo 'sudo dd of=/some/path/blah.tar'". Not the best of examples, but it comes up all the time. Sure, I could use "tee /some/path/blah.tar > /dev/null", but that has a greater risk of me forgetting the redirect, and getting garbage to the terminal.