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Having come from the DOS world (or it could have been Norton utilities), I always thought it was more like DiskDupe (duplicate disks). Funny how we never confi
by necovek 11mo ago
Having come from the DOS world (or it could have been Norton utilities), I always thought it was more like DiskDupe (duplicate disks).
Funny how we never confirm our hypothesis that "checks out".
- anyfoo 11mo ago"disk dump" is another common (but wrong) guess.
- softskunk 11mo agoI always read it as “[disk|data] destroyer”, because that’s what it’ll do if you’re not careful.
- jaredhallen 11mo agoYou know, this is true. And I've read any number of "you should never use dd, use this instead" articles over the years. But man, do I love me some dd.
- georgefrowny 11mo agodd is the software equivalent of removing the riving knife from a table saw. Then again, I get very paranoid when I write software that has to delete arbitrary files recursively. One bad string gets in there and it's a very bad day.
- Kevin-Xi 11mo agoOne explanation that left a deep impression on me is[1]: it stands for 'Copy and Convert' and was renamed to `dd` only because `cc` was reserved for the C compiler! [1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/6835/192313 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/6835/192313