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Re:Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015) by kosma on Sunday January 08, 2017 @10:23AM (#13350022)
head is line-wise. dd is byte-wise.
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Re:Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015) by fiddlerwoaroof on Sunday January 08, 2017 @11:05AM (#13350300)
Yeah, I was just saying that generally, when I need to strip off a header, the header is the first line of the file
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