If you can find a way to use 'dd' for disk/drive/device you can use it in interesting new manners (pipelines, etc.) and have very good confidence that it won't break in weird ways. It will do the small, simple thing it is supposed to do even if you are abusing it horribly.
But that's the very beauty of unix!
If you can find a way to use 'dd' for disk/drive/device you can use it in interesting new manners (pipelines, etc.) and have very good confidence that it won't break in weird ways. It will do the small, simple thing it is supposed to do even if you are abusing it horribly.
Like this, for instance: