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author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2011-03-05 02:21:45 +0000 |
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committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2011-03-05 02:21:45 +0000 |
commit | 433a7c614f0fbce3ba3346409af847d82670d284 (patch) | |
tree | 3d311c28a89ea81cc5bd1cd01455673ab7a44cfc /src/dd.c | |
parent | 7525860fb9c158cba362037fba491d82a09613c6 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-433a7c614f0fbce3ba3346409af847d82670d284.tar.xz |
doc: clarify that `dd bs=` can immediately output short reads
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Clarify that bs= can
cause parital reads to be immediately written to output.
* src/dd.c (usage): Hint that bs= can cause partial writes.
See http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8171
Diffstat (limited to 'src/dd.c')
-rw-r--r-- | src/dd.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -467,11 +467,11 @@ Usage: %s [OPERAND]...\n\ fputs (_("\ Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands.\n\ \n\ - bs=BYTES read and write BYTES bytes at a time (also see ibs=,obs=)\n\ + bs=BYTES read and write up to BYTES bytes at a time\n\ cbs=BYTES convert BYTES bytes at a time\n\ conv=CONVS convert the file as per the comma separated symbol list\n\ count=BLOCKS copy only BLOCKS input blocks\n\ - ibs=BYTES read BYTES bytes at a time (default: 512)\n\ + ibs=BYTES read up to BYTES bytes at a time (default: 512)\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ if=FILE read from FILE instead of stdin\n\ |