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		jimmaswell on May 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Useless Use of "dd" (2015) Changes with a good reason are fine, but I don't see a good reason to make the same flag a different letter.

tyingq on May 23, 2022 [–]

Apparently a typo on the post I was replying to...there is no "-b" switch, it's "-c" or "--bytes" for gnu head. Though there are versions of head without one or both of "-c", "--bytes".

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