Olivier Delhomme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3. used with "quiet" parameter it turns off the output (stated > a long time ago here : > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165045).
OK, but status=noxfer does that already, so I'm still a bit confused. > 2. used with "human" parameter the classic output is turned > into a human readable format We should distinguish here between longstanding output (which I would call "classic") and GNU output. For example, on Solaris 10, /usr/bin/dd has the "classic" output: $ gnudd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=128k count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 131072000 bytes (131 MB) copied, 0.0981356 s, 1.3 GB/s $ /usr/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=128k count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out The "classic" output also includes truncated blocks when that happens. The details are specified in <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/dd.html> under STDERR. Now, as I understand it, you want a way to change the format of the standard-required lines to use si or human styles, and to count bytes. But why bother? If all we want is to count bytes, all we need is the 3rd line, right? How about the following counterproposal? We let "status=+FORMAT" specify FORMAT as the format of the status line. Users can then supply the format they like. E.g., the current behavior could be implemented via something like this: status=+'%I+%i records in %O+%o records out %b bytes (%Sb) copied, %T s, %Sr/s' where 'S' is a modifier that says 'human-readable with SI units'. The user can substitute whatever other format they like. This should be easier to document and to explain than to have several flags controlling the format. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
