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Re: manpage of `dd`: multiplicative suffixes ambiguous
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Erik Auerswald |
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Re: manpage of `dd`: multiplicative suffixes ambiguous |
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Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:09:45 +0200 |
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Hi,
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:27:22PM +0200, Reuti wrote:
> looking in the man page of `dd` for multiplicative suffixes I understand that
> e.g. "K =1024". What I don't understand is the specification:
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> xM =M GB =1000*1000*1000
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> between two commas. Is there a comma missing, or is the "xM =M" there by
> accident? It even reads this way in coreutils 8.25.
Yes, there seems to be a comma missing after "xM = M", IMHO it should read:
c =1, w =2, b =512, kB =1000, K =1024, MB =1000*1000, M =1024*1024, xM =M,
GB =1000*1000*1000, G =1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.
(from dd --help, which is used to generate the man page)
Thanks,
Erik
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