From c1c51585f67d64bae62d5805cc3aac31984fe44d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Stone Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:12:22 +0100 Subject: 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 --- doc/coreutils.texi | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc') 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=$! -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf