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GNU coreutils 9.1 released

Villemoes — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 11:30:06 +0000

After realizing 'man dd' appeared embarrassingly often in my .bash_history, I recently discovered a mnemonic to distinguish 'seek' and 'skip': there's an 'i' in skip, so that one goes with 'if='.

GNU coreutils 9.1 released

NYKevin — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 05:53:02 +0000

Well that's easy, just set bs=1 and then everything is in bytes!

(Do not actually do this, it is hilariously inefficient because each byte will be a separate read/write.)

GNU coreutils 9.1 released

josh — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 06:56:07 +0000

Also really appreciating iseek and oseek, as much more memorable aliases.

GNU coreutils 9.1 released

osandov — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 05:48:56 +0000

> dd now counts bytes instead of blocks if a block count ends in "B".

Wow that'll be super convenient. Remembering how to specify count_bytes, skip_bytes, etc. is always annoying.