[sf-lug] Notes and some news from the Meeting of SF-LUG Sunday 4 September 2022

[Ronald Barnes]

Bobbie Sellers wrote on 2022-09-05 15:25:

>     Victor was busy trying to get a better understanding of Linux.
>     from Chat:Victor says:book says basic syntax structure for dd 
> utility is as follows:
>      dd if=INPUT_DEVICE of=OUTPUT-DEVICE [OPERANDS]

This one was merely an indication that the order of the parameters is 
not significant.


What I learned from the exchange was that "dd" command has a "nofollow" 
parameter, instructing "dd" to "do not follow symlinks".


I never considered what I thought of as a disk duplication tool having 
an awareness of symlinks.

Upon further consideration though, dd is most often used to copy from an 
ISO *file* to a disk (or vice versa (sp?)), so shouldn't be surprising!


It's a good day when something new is learnt.


rb