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Re: /etc/profile should include sbin in PATH



>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

    Joey> And clearly, there are no uses at all for dd unless you have
    Joey> root access, right? After all, it's just good for copying
    Joey> disks...

Not at all. dd is used for creating empty files (dd if=/dev/zero of=blah
count=1000) and random data (dd if=/dev/random blah blah) et cetera.

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