-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHBYcf84KuGfSFAYARAv7lAKCmlUal+uj6e8osWr4CUp+jWUNUuwCguoIU 7sygB4czKm236CObCT3e8ag= =81Fu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
