On 08/22/2014 10:52 PM, Dirk Gently wrote:
It is virtually unchanged since the 1960's [...]
According to the version control system [1], GNU coreutils' version of dd(1) is from Oct 1992 and had 287 changes since then. $ git log --oneline src/dd.c | wc -l 287 [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/log/src/dd.c
[...] -- NO CODE has ever been added throughout the last 45 years for dd to understand filesystems, or directory structures, or to give it the ability to walk through a directory structure.
Of course, because file system structures are completely beyond dd's domain; it's like asking "why can't dd(1) do 1+1?". It's not a calculator. The discussion is therefore quite "fruitful": apples and oranges. ;-) Have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org