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I always read it as “[disk|data] destroyer”, because that’s what it’ll do if you’re not careful.

You know, this is true. And I've read any number of "you should never use dd, use this instead" articles over the years. But man, do I love me some dd.

dd is the software equivalent of removing the riving knife from a table saw.

Then again, I get very paranoid when I write software that has to delete arbitrary files recursively. One bad string gets in there and it's a very bad day.

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