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		cat199 on March 29, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Explain Shell Didn't you hear? dd is a 'cult', and you should use 'standard' commands like pv instead, so this is totally okay, in fact good. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896675

bigbugbag on March 30, 2017 [–]

First comment from your link debunks the whole ordeal. pv is for monitoring the progress of data going through a pipe, hardly related to dd.

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