[ale] dd and cat

[kenn at pcintelligent.com (Ken N)]

I believe dd is better at error checking as it writes the file. Cat just
dumps the data there and doesn't know if there was an error. 

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The answer is simple if you grant that ironies are like submarines; 
dangerous only when submerged.


On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Ben Phillips wrote:

> If I want to replicate, say, a floppy disk, I can do it with 'cat /dev/fd0 >
> image' followed by repeated instances of 'cat image > /dev/fd0'.
> 
> But the recommended way to do that is usually with 'dd' instead.  Why?  What
> do they do different?
> 
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