Hi, The help text of dd now mentions that the word BLOCKS can be replaced with something. But the word BLOCKS does not occur any longer in the entire help text. Attached patch removes the superfluous mention.
The second patch converts the word BYTES to a single letter (X), as was done for BLOCKS (now N) -- this to avoid the awkward word combination of "BYTES bytes". Regards, Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html
From 31596e328019702857dcb1760c76d7a27b32c75c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:30:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] dd: the word BLOCKS no longer occurs in the help text --- src/dd.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/dd.c b/src/dd.c index 2ebbfae..de51435 100644 --- a/src/dd.c +++ b/src/dd.c @@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands.\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ \n\ -N, BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:\n\ +N and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:\n\ c =1, w =2, b =512, kB =1000, K =1024, MB =1000*1000, M =1024*1024, xM =M\n\ GB =1000*1000*1000, G =1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.\n\ \n\ -- 1.7.0.4
From 5f5db4e0c5060cd554dcecc16a126b274c9d6bd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:34:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] dd: change BYTES to a single letter, as was done for BLOCKS --- src/dd.c | 10 +++++----- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/dd.c b/src/dd.c index de51435..2a3bda0 100644 --- a/src/dd.c +++ b/src/dd.c @@ -522,16 +522,16 @@ Usage: %s [OPERAND]...\n\ fputs (_("\ Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands.\n\ \n\ - bs=BYTES read and write up to BYTES bytes at a time\n\ - cbs=BYTES convert BYTES bytes at a time\n\ + bs=X read and write up to X bytes at a time\n\ + cbs=X convert X bytes at a time\n\ conv=CONVS convert the file as per the comma separated symbol list\n\ count=N copy only N input blocks\n\ - ibs=BYTES read up to BYTES bytes at a time (default: 512)\n\ + ibs=X read up to X bytes at a time (default: 512)\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ if=FILE read from FILE instead of stdin\n\ iflag=FLAGS read as per the comma separated symbol list\n\ - obs=BYTES write BYTES bytes at a time (default: 512)\n\ + obs=X write X bytes at a time (default: 512)\n\ of=FILE write to FILE instead of stdout\n\ oflag=FLAGS write as per the comma separated symbol list\n\ seek=N skip N obs-sized blocks at start of output\n\ @@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands.\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ \n\ -N and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:\n\ +N and X may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:\n\ c =1, w =2, b =512, kB =1000, K =1024, MB =1000*1000, M =1024*1024, xM =M\n\ GB =1000*1000*1000, G =1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.\n\ \n\ -- 1.7.0.4
