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Commands like dd are the best. Good ole greybeard-era spells with arcane syntax and the power to casually wipe out the whole universe (from their perspective ofc) if used haphazardly or not in respectful manner.
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What do you mean? Explicitly having to set if= and of= is way harder to screw up than mixing up the order of arguments for e.g. cp.
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Unless you forget what if and of mean. With cp it’s simply “cp what where”. Never had problems remembering that.
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I never had any problems with cp either. But the post makes it seem like dd is somehow more error prone, which makes no sense to me
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