@thatcks My mnemonic device for skip vs. seek goes something like: "the i in skip is for input". Has worked well so far.
Today I confused dd's skip= argument for its seek= argument. No wonder the selective damage I was doing wasn't working so well.
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Chris Siebenmann
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