On 10/12/06, Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:49:31AM +0530, Krishna P wrote:
On 10/11/06, Gopalarathnam Venkatesan <gopal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:dd stands for disk dump. Later ppl would have retroactively changed its
Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
dd stands for "disk dump" just like grep stands for "graphic regularexpression print" and ping stands for "packet internet groper"...
grep stands for global regular expression print IIRC
dd stands for Dump Data and its not specific to disk.
expansion.