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Hello I wanted to write an iso image to an USB stick (which is in /dev/sdd) but I've made a slight typo, instead of typing:

dd if=/path/to/downloaded.iso of=/dev/sdd

I typed:

dd if=/path/to/downloaded.iso of=/dev/sdd}

After that dd told me it wrote arround 1.5 MB, so I checked, and the file "/dev/sdd}" was created. Is this harmful?

PD: I deleted the /dev/sdd} file.

Ignacio Taranto
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No; it is just a regular file on disk. Had you let it finish, you would simply have had a copy of the iso file named /dev/sdd}. In other words, there is nothing special about the /dev directory so you can create new regular files there all you like. It is only the dev nodes that the system creates there that are special.

psusi
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