• debil@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Unless you forget what if and of mean. With cp it’s simply “cp what where”. Never had problems remembering that.

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        10 days ago

        No, but you’re just typing if and of, not infile and outfile, and the letters are right next to each other on a qwerty kbd. One can haphazardly misuse a lot of commands, it’s just that some commands may lead to nastier outcomes than others.

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      10 days ago

      I never had any problems with cp either. But the post makes it seem like dd is somehow more error prone, which makes no sense to me

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        10 days ago

        Well, usually dd is not used as often as cp, so there’s a bigger chance of messing up the parameters, unless you’re careful and rtfm first.