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Re: /etc/profile should include sbin in PATH



Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> >>>>> "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.

I was being just a leeetle sarcastic -- see the last paragraph of that
message.

-- 
see shy jo


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