Heck, I use shell redirects. Something like this: < /path/to/imagefile > /path/to/device Oddly, I've just realized this works fine in ZSH but not BASH :)

Heck, I use shell redirects. Something like this: < /path/to/imagefile > /path/to/device Oddly, I've just realized this works fine in ZSH but not BASH :) ZSH copies, BASH makes a 0-byte file/writes nothing I guess I've been lucky not caring about the block size