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		kelnos on Oct 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The cult of dd (2017) If we go by your definition, then 'dd' is absolutely "standard", and 'pv' absolutely is not.

ufo on Oct 25, 2022 [–]

The point here is that dd is the weird one out that has a different command line syntax than everything else. Not about whether it's installed by default. (Let's not get distracted by the pv bit; dd's status=progress isn't POSIX either)

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