> ; read -c 72 /dev/wctl

Or, if your chosen flavour of Plan 9 doesn't have the 'read -c'
option, one of these will do:

dd -if /dev/wctl -bs 72 -count 1 -quiet 1
syscall -o read 0 buf 72 </dev/wctl >[2]/dev/null


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