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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1997-12-13 22:49:33 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1997-12-13 22:49:33 +0000
commitf977e4b5cf606610471bf828c300bbfc43e8715e (patch)
tree43097cf4d340f65fee5260bef233492539055275 /src/dd.c
parentd75ca19d76eb25f7d561a943795bf2e5bd5b5952 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-f977e4b5cf606610471bf828c300bbfc43e8715e.tar.xz
Change --help output to tell the truth: that for of=FILE,
FILE *is* truncated. Reported by Miles Bader. Remove incomplete, usage-like comment at top of file.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/dd.c')
-rw-r--r--src/dd.c38
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 37 deletions
diff --git a/src/dd.c b/src/dd.c
index 9b680ecc7..4e36c9734 100644
--- a/src/dd.c
+++ b/src/dd.c
@@ -17,42 +17,6 @@
/* Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp. */
-/* Options:
-
- Numbers can be followed by a multiplier:
- b=512, c=1, k=1024, w=2, xm=number m
-
- if=FILE Read from FILE instead of stdin.
- of=FILE Write to FILE instead of stdout; don't
- truncate FILE.
- ibs=BYTES Read BYTES bytes at a time.
- obs=BYTES Write BYTES bytes at a time.
- bs=BYTES Override ibs and obs.
- cbs=BYTES Convert BYTES bytes at a time.
- skip=BLOCKS Skip BLOCKS ibs-sized blocks at
- start of input.
- seek=BLOCKS Skip BLOCKS obs-sized blocks at
- start of output.
- count=BLOCKS Copy only BLOCKS input blocks.
- conv=CONVERSION[,CONVERSION...]
-
- Conversions:
- ascii Convert EBCDIC to ASCII.
- ebcdic Convert ASCII to EBCDIC.
- ibm Convert ASCII to alternate EBCDIC.
- block Pad newline-terminated records to size of
- cbs, replacing newline with trailing spaces.
- unblock Replace trailing spaces in cbs-sized block
- with newline.
- lcase Change upper case characters to lower case.
- ucase Change lower case characters to upper case.
- swab Swap every pair of input bytes.
- Unlike the Unix dd, this works when an odd
- number of bytes are read.
- noerror Continue after read errors.
- sync Pad every input block to size of ibs with
- trailing NULs. */
-
#include <config.h>
#include <stdio.h>
@@ -1151,7 +1115,7 @@ Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the options.\n\
ibs=BYTES read BYTES bytes at a time\n\
if=FILE read from FILE instead of stdin\n\
obs=BYTES write BYTES bytes at a time\n\
- of=FILE write to FILE instead of stdout, don't truncate file\n\
+ of=FILE write to FILE instead of stdout\n\
seek=BLOCKS skip BLOCKS obs-sized blocks at start of output\n\
skip=BLOCKS skip BLOCKS ibs-sized blocks at start of input\n\
--help display this help and exit\n\