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Re: manpage of `dd`: multiplicative suffixes ambiguous
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: manpage of `dd`: multiplicative suffixes ambiguous |
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Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:16:27 +0100 |
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On 18/08/16 11:27, Reuti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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 a missing comma, which was not needed in --help output,
but due to wrapping is needed for the man page. Fixed in:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.25-56-g3e71b06
NxM is calculated, so `dd count=10x12` processes 120 blocks.
thanks,
Pádraig.