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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 /src | |
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 'src')
-rw-r--r-- | src/dd.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -463,16 +463,16 @@ 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\n\ + bs=BYTES read and write BYTES bytes at a time (also see ibs=,obs=)\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\n\ + ibs=BYTES read BYTES bytes at a time (default: 512)\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ if=FILE read from FILE instead of stdin\n\ iflag=FLAGS read as per the comma separated symbol list\n\ - obs=BYTES write BYTES bytes at a time\n\ + obs=BYTES write BYTES bytes at a time (default: 512)\n\ of=FILE write to FILE instead of stdout\n\ oflag=FLAGS write as per the comma separated symbol list\n\ seek=BLOCKS skip BLOCKS obs-sized blocks at start of output\n\ |