On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.pl> wrote: > On my Linux box:
? > cat HUGE | /usr/bin/time dd bs=1 count=1234944 | wc -c stdin might be something much faster than your disk, in which case the relative cost of bs=1 increases. > cat HUGE | /usr/bin/time dd bs=1024 count=1206 | wc -c Doesn't work for prime numbers. ;)
