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authorBernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>2012-06-21 13:23:35 +0200
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2012-06-22 12:16:04 +0100
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doc: document multiplier for dd number options like count=N
* src/dd.c (usage): Add "N" to the description of multipliers. * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Likewise.
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@@ -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}).