Hi,

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:27:22PM +0200, Reuti wrote:
> 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, there seems to be a comma missing after "xM = M", IMHO it should read:

c =1, w =2, b =512, kB =1000, K =1024, MB =1000*1000, M =1024*1024, xM =M,
GB =1000*1000*1000, G =1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.

(from dd --help, which is used to generate the man page)

Thanks,
Erik
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