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According to Bart Trojanowski on 10/4/2007 4:09 PM:
> This is a trivial patch that adds hexadecimal support for numerical
> arguments passed to dd.

This has been suggested before:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-03/msg00107.html

Alas, your patch won't work with the b, c, or E suffix, so you are
probably better off using what was determined before, and simply let a
POSIX-conformant shell do the work for you:

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=$((0xe0000)) count=1

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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