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| author | Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> | 2008-01-29 14:12:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-01-29 14:14:07 +0100 |
| commit | c1c51585f67d64bae62d5805cc3aac31984fe44d (patch) | |
| tree | 8bba83533d913df07690911dce6af4217037ca49 /doc | |
| parent | a7f5e64909fa24ecf2ef72a8cc3070cf38332842 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-c1c51585f67d64bae62d5805cc3aac31984fe44d.tar.xz | |
Improve the description of when dd outputs its final statistics.
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Say that dd prints stats
upon normal termination and upon SIGINT.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 0de856089..40aee6f71 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7559,7 +7559,8 @@ process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying. In the example below, @command{dd} is run in the background to copy 10 million blocks. The @command{kill} command makes it output intermediate I/O statistics, -and when @command{dd} completes, it outputs the final statistics. +and when @command{dd} completes normally or is killed by the +@code{SIGINT} signal, it outputs the final statistics. @example $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=10MB & pid=$! |