On 30/09/2025 13:41, Sven Wiltink wrote:
Hey all,
I found the useful flags skip_bytes, seek_bytes and count_bytes but couldn’t
find their documentation. Here is a patch to add those flags to the output of
dd’s –help
We actually removed that documentation because there is an improved way to do
it,
where you suffix the value with 'B' to interpret as bytes. The docs already say:
$ dd --help | grep 'N '
count=N copy only N input blocks
seek=N (or oseek=N) skip N obs-sized output blocks
skip=N (or iseek=N) skip N ibs-sized input blocks
N and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:
If N ends in 'B', it counts bytes not blocks.
thanks,
Padraig
