Your message dated Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:42:35 -0400
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and subject line Re: Processed: tagging 422275
has caused the Debian Bug report #422275,
regarding coreutils: dd does not accept hex numbers as input
to be marked as done.
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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.3
Severity: wishlist
It sure would be nice to to not have to convert hex numbers manually
when using dd...
# dd bs=0x200
dd: invalid number `0x200'
This was a really easy fix. Here is the patch...
--- a/src/dd.c
+++ b/src/dd.c
@@ -829,7 +829,15 @@ parse_integer (const char *str, bool *invalid)
{
uintmax_t n;
char *suffix;
- enum strtol_error e = xstrtoumax (str, &suffix, 10, &n, "bcEGkKMPTwYZ0");
+ enum strtol_error e;
+ int base = 10;
+
+ if (str[0] == '0' && str[1] == 'x')
+ {
+ str += 2;
+ base = 16;
+ }
+ e = xstrtoumax (str, &suffix, base, &n, "bcEGkKMPTwYZ0");
if (e == LONGINT_INVALID_SUFFIX_CHAR && *suffix == 'x')
{
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.7-xenon64-smp.14 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.42-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 09:34:08AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
Thanks for the tag, but as far as I'm concerned,
this can be closed, since you can already use hex numbers,
as long as you're using a reasonable shell:
agreed
Mike Stone
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