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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2015-12-31 11:43:09 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2015-12-31 11:49:55 -0800
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downloadcoreutils-8f9bf300174afa9b29027542ec59892f610c08e4.tar.xz
dd: summarize in --human-readable format too
Problem reported by Linda Walsh in: http://bugs.gnu.org/17505 * NEWS: Document this. * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Use a simpler script. Adjust output example to match new behavior. * src/dd.c (human_size): Remove. All uses changed to use human_readable and ... (human_opts): ... this new constant. (abbreviation_lacks_prefix): New function. (print_xfer_stats): Use it. Output both --si and --human-readable summaries, but only if they have prefixes. * tests/dd/reblock.sh, tests/dd/stats.sh: Test new behavior.
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@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** New features
+ dd now summarizes sizes in --human-readable format too, not just --si.
+ E.g., "3441325000 bytes (3.4 GB, 3.2 GiB) copied". It omits the summaries
+ if they would not provide useful information, e.g., "3 bytes copied".
+
md5sum now supports the --ignore-missing option to allow
verifying a subset of files given a larger list of checksums.
This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.