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Re:Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015) by greenleafjacob on Sunday January 08, 2017 @08:32AM (#13349619)
Isn't this the same as:

    tail -c +$HEADERSIZE <foo
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Re:Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015) by tspiteri on Sunday January 08, 2017 @10:06AM (#13349927)
The dd idiom can be used to split a file into parts with known block size, something like

    (dd bs=$SIZE1 count=1 of=file1; dd bs=$SIZE2 ...
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