FWIW, I'm all for this change! I constantly get bitten by not being
able to use the upper case prefixes I'm used to using almost everywhere.
Also, since the prefixes originally stem from the SI standard units,
where for example a lower case 'm' means 'milli' while an upper case 'M'
is used for 'mega', it makes perfect sense from a standards point of view
also.
Best regards,
/Benny
On 2011-10-08 17.00, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> Well, it's not POSIX, but from what I can see nor are 'm' or 'w'.
>
> I think if we do this we should do it consistently, so accept 'B' and
> 'W' and 'X' as well.
>
> Otherwise I can't see this doing any harm. Anyone else?
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 03:13:14PM +0200, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
>>> Simple patch to allow uppercase size modifiers (K, M, and G).
>>
>> I know this is not the most important thing in the world, but this
>> annoys me so I'm going to give it one last shot:
>>
>> can somebody please give me one reason why this should not go in?
>>
>> Look, when you ask various tools to display human-readable output
>> they do so using /uppercase/ characters. Examples are disklabel,
>> bioctl, ls, df, du, and wc. The fdisk and disklabel editors both
>> accept uppercase letters and so does newfs.
>>
>> Why must dd be different?
>>
>> Something about the rule of least surprise comes to mind ...
>>
>>> Index: args.c
>>> ===================================================================
>>> RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/dd/args.c,v
>>> retrieving revision 1.18
>>> diff -u -p -r1.18 args.c
>>> --- args.c 27 Oct 2009 23:59:21 -0000 1.18
>>> +++ args.c 2 Oct 2011 18:04:34 -0000
>>> @@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ get_bsz(char *val)
>>> ++expr;
>>> break;
>>> case 'k':
>>> + case 'K':
>>> t = num;
>>> num *= 1024;
>>> if (t > num)
>>> @@ -348,6 +349,7 @@ get_bsz(char *val)
>>> ++expr;
>>> break;
>>> case 'm':
>>> + case 'M':
>>> t = num;
>>> num *= 1048576;
>>> if (t > num)
>>> @@ -411,6 +413,7 @@ get_off(char *val)
>>> ++expr;
>>> break;
>>> case 'k':
>>> + case 'K':
>>> t = num;
>>> num *= 1024;
>>> if (t > num)
>>> @@ -418,6 +421,7 @@ get_off(char *val)
>>> ++expr;
>>> break;
>>> case 'm':
>>> + case 'M':
>>> t = num;
>>> num *= 1048576;
>>> if (t > num)
>
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