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What is the computational difference between cat and dd?
by sitkack 3y ago
What is the computational difference between cat and dd?
- teddyh 3y agoAFAIK, ‘dd’ reads and writes a block at a time (whatever the its default block size is), while ‘cat’ uses whatever buffer sizes it thinks is the most efficient for the devices it is using for that invocation.