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on April 5, 2015
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Why the name?
Another great one is 'dd' which stands for 'Copy and Convert'. Oddly enough, cc was already taken.
ivoras
on April 5, 2015
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Wasn't "dd" always "duplicate data"?
wantab
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Nope.
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6804/what-does-dd-st...
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