TRIM utility

[Enji Cooper]

> On Nov 23, 2018, at 03:34, Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On 23.11.2018 14:19, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
>>>> Currently it has four options, all of them are, hmm, optional:
>> Isn't this the kind of thing that dd(1) should learn about instead ?
> One utility to done one thing very well? :-)
> 
> dd(1) is way overloaded, IMHO.

I agree that dd is super complex; while we could add conv=trim, that might not be the right way.

Would it make sense to have pushed down into a simple library (leveraging the logic used by dd), and adopt in several tools?

Thanks so much for bringing this up Eugene :).

-Enji