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Re: dd - unsupported suffixes
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: dd - unsupported suffixes |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:41:07 +0100 |
Henrik Holst <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think that the man page says that Z and Y suffix
> should be supported (for BLOCK and BYTE fields)
> but they are not in dd v6.10.
Thanks for the report.
However, I don't see a problem.
I admit it might look like those suffixes are not supported:
$ dd bs=1 seek=1Z of=x < /dev/null
dd: invalid number `1Z'
[Exit 1]
But that's just because 1Z and 1Y are larger than 2^64.
You can use "0" instead of "1", to show that they are
indeed accepted:
$ dd bs=1 seek=0Y of=x < /dev/null
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 1.4038e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
If you still see a problem, please show the precise
command you tried to run, and the output it produced.
- Re: dd - unsupported suffixes,
Jim Meyering <=