Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is support for binary multiples in dd,
Yes, but that's for the operands of dd, e.g., "dd bs=512M" talks about a block size 512 * 1024 * 1024 bytes, as opposed to "dd bs=512MB" which uses 512 * 1000 * 1000. But Dat Head is asking for binary multiples in the stderr messages, e.g., $ dd bs=512M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 549755813888 bytes (550 GB) copied, 13.7008 s, 40.1 GB/s Currently these messages always use powers of 10, not 2, even if the block size and counts are powers of 2. Dat Head wants that last line to say "(512 GiB)" and "37.4 GiB/s". That will require a new option, I think. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
