Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 18:28:01 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: The name "grep" Message-ID: <1404750481.19389.12.camel@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <20140707160528.7ecf9855.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20140707075443.d47ca06a.freebsd@edvax.de> <53BA4F77.60907@qeng-ho.org> <20140707104403.5a0694ff.freebsd@edvax.de> <53BA71A7.9040208@qeng-ho.org> <1404728392.19389.1.camel@archlinux> <53BA9EC0.9000201@qeng-ho.org> <20140707160528.7ecf9855.freebsd@edvax.de>
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> On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:21:04 +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: > > dd [options] [ infile [ outfile ]] This way users by accident could mistake the infile with the outfile. We dislike to randomly screw up infile and outfile, so IMO it makes sense to force if= and of= "operands".
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