On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 06:43:54PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > cat <foo.iso >/dev/sdb > > > > dd <foo.iso >/dev/sdb
> Is there really no functional difference between the baseline trivial > functionalities of cat and dd? There are two differences: 1) dd is specified to use default input and output block sizes of 512 bytes. 2) dd is specified to write a summary to stderr upon completion. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/dd.html
