[Gllug] installing grub on the Mbr

[Matthew King]

"- Tethys" <tethys at gmail.com> writes:

> On 1/16/07, Martin A. Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org> wrote:
>
>> The "-" means "take data from STDIN".  The "if" parameter being "input
>> file".
>
> Yes, although it's superfluous here, because if you don't specify an
> input file, dd defaults to reading from stdin anyway. And in fact,
> with GNU dd at least, "if=-" won't work, because it'll look for a file
> named "-".

I do not use dd enough to know that. Only really to backup/restore
floppy images and wipe hard drive partition tables, neither of which
need any advanced incantations.

Matthew

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