This Isn't Your Grandpappy's dd Command

Oct 03, 2008, 21:02 (3 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Noah Gift, Grig Gheorghiu)

"The new twist is to mix dd with Python and the Google Chart API to make a UNIX 2.0 mashup tool. ("UNIX 2.0" is a play on words for what happens when you change the original behavior of a tool like dd to make it do something a bit different.)"

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