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| author | Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net> | 2008-08-08 13:33:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-08-11 09:47:01 +0200 |
| commit | 4ebf956b4e6e005112b7cdbc917abebfa9f31021 (patch) | |
| tree | 35d356fa8cab3d99a97b79bcccfe08196ab0d898 | |
| parent | 0392142b874137eaa03654896621049e995a017c (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-4ebf956b4e6e005112b7cdbc917abebfa9f31021.tar.xz | |
dd: clarify meaning of multiplication factors; put xM in order
| -rw-r--r-- | src/dd.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -474,8 +474,8 @@ Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands.\n\ fputs (_("\ \n\ BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:\n\ -xM M, c 1, w 2, b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024,\n\ -GB 1000*1000*1000, G 1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.\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\ Each CONV symbol may be:\n\ \n\ |