bug#12212: [patch] dd's help text contains superfluous word

[Jim Meyering]

Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 08/17/2012 08:30 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> Re: [PATCH 1/2] dd: the word BLOCKS no longer occurs in the help text
>>
>> On 08/16/2012 06:45 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The help text of dd now mentions that the word BLOCKS can
>>> be replaced with something.  But the word BLOCKS does not
>>> occur any longer in the entire help text.  Attached patch
>>> removes the superfluous mention.
>>
>> argh, that renaming from BLOCKS to N was done in v8.15-38-g140eca1,
>> and I added the documentation for N again in v8.17-26-g4f2e9d5
>> without noticing that. Sorry for that.
>>
>> BLOCKS is still mentioned in coreutils.texi.
>> Here's the fix:
>>
>> diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
>> index 62b31fe..265d2e5 100644
>> --- a/doc/coreutils.texi
>> +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
>> @@ -8402,7 +8402,7 @@ affected file descriptors, even after @command{dd} 
>> exits.
>>  @end table
>>
>>  @cindex multipliers after numbers
>> -The numeric-valued strings above (@var{n}, @var{bytes} and @var{blocks})
>> +The numeric-valued strings above (@var{n} and @var{bytes})
>>  can be followed by a multiplier: @samp{b}=512, @samp{c}=1,
>>  @samp{w}=2, @address@hidden@var{m}, or any of the
>>  standard block size suffixes like @samp{k}=1024 (@pxref{Block size}).
>>
>>
>> Have a nice day,
>> Berny
>
> Anyone catching up on Benno's patch with my addendum?
> (I'm not sure about the second patch though.)

Hi Berny,
I was waiting for a complete patch ;-)