dd command*1 in UNIX reads and writes data in specified bytes or blocks at specified devices. It is used to backup of HDD or USB memory at partition or sector level, or convert from an optic medium to ISO file.
Although Windows doesn't have similar command, DD for Windows*2 is one option as its alternative.
dd is also used to generate and edit binary file. DD for Windows can't do this, but PowerShell can cover it. It is Set-Content cmdlet.
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Generating binary file
"Set-Content" is cmdlet basically for handling string. It can replace string in specified files. If specified file doesn't exist, it make new file including specified string.
/dev/zero
Specifying byte array instead of string, user can make a binary file. Example, next code outputs "my_binary.dat" as 128KB binary file.
Open this file with binary editor, it is found that this code did the same thing as "/dev/zero".
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/dev/random
Similarly, specifying byte array full of random numbers can do the same thing as "/dev/random".
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