On 18/08/16 11:27, Reuti wrote: > Hi, > > looking in the man page of `dd` for multiplicative suffixes I understand that > e.g. "K =1024". What I don't understand is the specification: > > xM =M GB =1000*1000*1000 > > between two commas. Is there a comma missing, or is the "xM =M" there by > accident? It even reads this way in coreutils 8.25.
Yes a missing comma, which was not needed in --help output, but due to wrapping is needed for the man page. Fixed in: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.25-56-g3e71b06 NxM is calculated, so `dd count=10x12` processes 120 blocks. thanks, Pádraig.
