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[PATCH] dd: document multiplier for number options like count=N
From: |
Bernhard Voelker |
Subject: |
[PATCH] dd: document multiplier for number options like count=N |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:23:35 +0200 |
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120601 Thunderbird/13.0 |
I was surprised that the "N" options of dd also accept a multiplier
suffix, e.g. "count=10M". The following patch documents it.
Have a nice day,
Berny
>From 6e683c1273c2f6da2cdb74e3d6e8ee3cbd2236ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bernhard Voelker <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:03:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dd: document multiplier for number options like count=N
* src/dd.c (usage): Add "N" to the description of multipliers.
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Likewise.
---
doc/coreutils.texi | 4 ++--
src/dd.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index f7251b2..08ef2d8 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -8399,8 +8399,8 @@ affected file descriptors, even after @command{dd} exits.
@end table
@cindex multipliers after numbers
-The numeric-valued strings above (@var{bytes} and @var{blocks}) can be
-followed by a multiplier: @samp{b}=512, @samp{c}=1,
+The numeric-valued strings above (@var{n}, @var{bytes} and @var{blocks})
+can be followed by a multiplier: @samp{b}=512, @samp{c}=1,
@samp{w}=2, @samp{x@var{m}}=@var{m}, or any of the
standard block size suffixes like @samp{k}=1024 (@pxref{Block size}).
diff --git a/src/dd.c b/src/dd.c
index 163d514..f86deb5 100644
--- a/src/dd.c
+++ b/src/dd.c
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the
operands.\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
\n\
-BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:\n\
+N, BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative
suffixes:\n\
c =1, w =2, b =512, kB =1000, K =1024, MB =1000*1000, M =1024*1024, xM =M\n\
GB =1000*1000*1000, G =1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.\n\
\n\
--
1.7.7
- [PATCH] dd: document multiplier for number options like count=N,
Bernhard Voelker <=