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[โ€“] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

dd does not stand for "disk duplicator". That's a modern backronymization that doesn't reflect the original general usage of the command which is to "convert and copy". Efficiently (with respect to I/O) copying raw data is only one of its intended purposes; it also converts text encodings.

[โ€“] kbotc@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

fine Data Definition.