Re: [PATCH 1/2] dd: the word BLOCKS no longer occurs in the help text
On 08/16/2012 06:45 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>
> 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.
argh, that renaming from BLOCKS to N was done in v8.15-38-g140eca1,
and I added the documentation for N again in v8.17-26-g4f2e9d5
without noticing that. Sorry for that.
BLOCKS is still mentioned in coreutils.texi.
Here's the fix:
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 62b31fe..265d2e5 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -8402,7 +8402,7 @@ affected file descriptors, even after @command{dd} exits.
@end table
@cindex multipliers after numbers
-The numeric-valued strings above (@var{n}, @var{bytes} and @var{blocks})
+The numeric-valued strings above (@var{n} and @var{bytes})
can be followed by a multiplier: @samp{b}=512, @samp{c}=1,
@samp{w}=2, @samp{x@var{m}}=@var{m}, or any of the
standard block size suffixes like @samp{k}=1024 (@pxref{Block size}).
Have a nice day,
Berny
