> That leads onto the only other possible implementation I suppose. > I.E. since we don't need to specify skip and skip_bytes together, > the option value could select between each mode. I.E. > > skip=2 => skip 2 blocks, > skip=2b => skip 1024 blocks, > skip=2bytes => skip 2 bytes > > Hmm, that's not too bad at all really I do agree, it looks like a very interesting idea indeed. However, I have two questions: 1. Why skip=2b => 1024 blocks ? 2. Do you know if there is a utility function somewhere in coreutils or gnulib which could help me to parse this ? If such a function exists it could be able to manage more units (bytes, kbytes, megabytes, ...). If have to write such a function we have to discuss the possibilities I have to provide.
Cheers, Jérémy
