[TUHS] On computerese

[Alexander Schreiber]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 08:15:34AM +1000, Rob Pike wrote:
> For me the fascinating thing about dd is that people tended to use the JCL
> notation for its arguments even after the Unix style was made available.
> That is, people prefer "dd if=foo" rather than "dd -if foo" or even the
> obviously easiest "dd <foo".

Wait, when did that happen? And more importantly, _where_?

The GNU Coreutils version (according to both --help and the man page)
only appears to support the JCL convention and in fact complains and
aborts when fed Unix style arguments. The NetBSD version behaves the
same way.

Kind regards,
           Alex.
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