[Gllug] installing grub on the Mbr

[- Tethys]

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 "-".

Tet
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