Re: dd - unsupported suffixes

[Jim Meyering]

Henrik Holst <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think that the man page says that Z and Y suffix
> should be supported (for BLOCK and BYTE fields)
> but they are not in dd v6.10.

Thanks for the report.
However, I don't see a problem.

I admit it might look like those suffixes are not supported:

    $ dd bs=1 seek=1Z of=x < /dev/null
    dd: invalid number `1Z'
    [Exit 1]

But that's just because 1Z and 1Y are larger than 2^64.
You can use "0" instead of "1", to show that they are
indeed accepted:

    $ dd bs=1 seek=0Y of=x < /dev/null
    0+0 records in
    0+0 records out
    0 bytes (0 B) copied, 1.4038e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s


If you still see a problem, please show the precise
command you tried to run, and the output it produced.