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		jhugo on May 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Useless Use of "dd" (2015) Yup, `dd` helps in a lot of situations when you need portability, not just this one. Commands like `cp --sparse=always` aren't worth such a blanket disrecommendation though; if you are working directly at a console as opposed to scripting you typically don't need portability.

inopinatus on May 23, 2022 [–]

Again, most of the consoles I work at don’t use GNU coretools.

jhugo on May 23, 2022 | [–]

Then you obviously can't use this, but many people reading my suggestion can.

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