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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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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