Re: dd statistics output

[Pádraig Brady]

On 07/16/2014 03:45 AM, Christian Groessler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the final output of 'dd' is in "SI mode" (or how to call it). It uses 10^6 
> instead of 2^20 for "megabyte".
> 
> Example:
> 
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=65536 count=4096
> 4096+0 records in
> 4096+0 records out
> 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 0.0248346 s, 10.8 GB/s
> $
> 
> Is there a switch to display in "traditional" units, I'd like to have
> 
> 268435456 bytes (256 MB) copied, ...

http://bugs.gnu.org/17505#37 was proposed do the following automatically 
(depending on the amount output):

  268435456 bytes (256 MiB) copied, 0.0248346 s, 10.8 GB/s

However that wasn't applied due to inconsistency concerns.
I'm still of the opinion that the change above would be a net gain,
as the number in brackets is for human interpretation, and in the vast
majority of cases would be the best representation for that.

Pádraig.