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		Vecr on Oct 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The cult of dd (2017) `blah \| sudo tee /some/file > /dev/null` would though. Both are probably fine.

kelnos on Oct 25, 2022 [–]

If 'blah' outputs binary data, then that would work, but would spew garbage to the terminal. Piping to 'dd' is probably more efficient regardless.

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