svn: head/usr.bin: . trim

Steven Hartland steven.hartland at multiplay.co.uk
Fri Nov 30 08:31:20 UTC 2018


Personally I disagree, chances of people finding that option in dd is 
slim, a dedicated trim utility makes much more sense to me. Sure have 
both that's cool but keep the trim would be my vote.

On 30/11/2018 01:17, Cy Schubert wrote:
> Agreed.
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> The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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> From: Alexey Dokuchaev
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> To: Maxim Sobolev
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> Subject: Re: svn: head/usr.bin: . trim
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> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:36:02AM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > Interesting. I have a similar functionality implemented as an option for
> > the dd utility in my pipeline (conv=erase).
>
> Which probably makes a better place rather than adding 4-letter program,
> commonly named ("trim" is a simple word), into global namespace. :-/
>
> ./danfe
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