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minus-squaredebil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·3 hours agoCommands like dd are the best. Good ole greybeard-era spells with arcane syntax and the power to casually wipe out the whole universe (from their perspective ofc) if used haphazardly or not in respectful manner.
minus-squareftbd@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 hours agoWhat do you mean? Explicitly having to set if= and of= is way harder to screw up than mixing up the order of arguments for e.g. cp.
minus-squaredebil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 hour agoUnless you forget what if and of mean. With cp it’s simply “cp what where”. Never had problems remembering that.
minus-squareinsufferableninja@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 minutes agois it really hard to remember infile and outfile?
minus-squareftbd@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·43 minutes agoI never had any problems with cp either. But the post makes it seem like dd is somehow more error prone, which makes no sense to me
Commands like
ddare the best. Good ole greybeard-era spells with arcane syntax and the power to casually wipe out the whole universe (from their perspective ofc) if used haphazardly or not in respectful manner.What do you mean? Explicitly having to set
if=andof=is way harder to screw up than mixing up the order of arguments for e.g.cp.Unless you forget what if and of mean. With
cpit’s simply “cp what where”. Never had problems remembering that.is it really hard to remember infile and outfile?
I never had any problems with
cpeither. But the post makes it seem likeddis somehow more error prone, which makes no sense to me