Re: suggestion: /etc/dd.conf

[sunnycemetery]

2020-04-28, 15:46, Erik Auerswald:
> You could consider using an alias, e.g.:
>
>    alias ddusb "dd bs=4096 conv=fsync"
>
> You could add this to your shell startup files, e.g., the ~/.bashrc file.   
> Some GNU/Linux distributions read the file ~/.bash_aliases if it exists,  
> with the intent to place alias definitions there.

This is a good suggestion.  I would like to add, however, that an alias  
(or function) in $BASH_ENV instead of ~/.bashrc has an added benefit  
of being available for other programs when the shell is not interactive  
(as with vim's command line, for example).