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author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-02-19 12:35:58 +0100 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-02-19 12:45:18 +0100 |
commit | 0c91ae335d45250ed9024ededd36aac40e071d7b (patch) | |
tree | 5f196dc3e705b8b9c91b090256c543966ec90dbf /doc | |
parent | 0e40e9de57589095dba048a64dd842c116916dc3 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-0c91ae335d45250ed9024ededd36aac40e071d7b.tar.xz |
doc: dd: document that the default block size is 512 bytes
* src/dd.c (usage): Document the default block size.
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document that the default
block size (bs, ibs, obs) is 512 bytes.
Reported by Petr Uzel.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 42234d36a..8d496ad37 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7605,6 +7605,7 @@ bytes (or the size specified with @samp{seek=}). @cindex input block size Set the input block size to @var{bytes}. This makes @command{dd} read @var{bytes} per block. +The default is 512 bytes. @item obs=@var{bytes} @opindex obs @@ -7612,6 +7613,7 @@ This makes @command{dd} read @var{bytes} per block. @cindex output block size Set the output block size to @var{bytes}. This makes @command{dd} write @var{bytes} per block. +The default is 512 bytes. @item bs=@var{bytes} @opindex bs |