PS: "dd = copy and convert (cc was taken by C compiler, but not mentioned in the manpage; "common knowledge")"
:D duplicate data ^ ^ IMO would be more reasonable ;), so I googled and indeed I found this: "[snip] The name dd may be an allusion to the DD statement found in IBM's Job Control Language (JCL),[3] where the initials stand for "Data Description."[4] The command's syntax resembles the JCL statement more than it does other Unix commands, so the syntax may have been a joke.[3] Another explanation for the command's name is that "cc" (for "convert and copy", as in the command's description) was already taken by the C compiler.[citation needed] [snip] dd can duplicate data across files, devices, partitions and volumes. [snip]" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix) _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list D-community-offtopic@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic