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Re: Trying to understand man page for dd



Hi,

David wrote:
> https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=dd+if%3D%2Fdev%2Fzero+of%3D%2Fdev%2Fnul
l%26+pid%3D%24!

For a machine this is not a bad answer.

> https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=kill+-USR1+%24pid%3B+sleep+1%3B+kill+%2
4pid

But this one missed the point quite clearly.
(It gets no clue that the signals are sent to dd. So the result can only
 be unspecific info.)


Have a nice day :)

Thomas


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