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| author | Gregory Sutter <gsutter@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-02-18 04:55:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Gregory Sutter <gsutter@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-02-18 04:55:40 +0000 |
| commit | 276d5ee8514cf43ad1729326fb2a6009baab8d18 (patch) | |
| tree | 6fd77895f57559819512377bf5a8c1e6325c5746 /bin | |
| parent | a48a35c7f6c4f0e109a5302fe3f9bb255c8e3b61 (diff) | |
| download | src-276d5ee8514cf43ad1729326fb2a6009baab8d18.tar.gz src-276d5ee8514cf43ad1729326fb2a6009baab8d18.zip | |
Reflect that dd accepts octal and hexadecimal numbers (in addition to decimal).
PR: 16750
Submitted by: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=57308
Diffstat (limited to 'bin')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/dd/dd.1 | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/dd/dd.1 b/bin/dd/dd.1 index 49831dfdff57..32260e90b874 100644 --- a/bin/dd/dd.1 +++ b/bin/dd/dd.1 @@ -282,7 +282,8 @@ appended. .El .El .Pp -Where sizes are specified, a decimal number of bytes is expected. +Where sizes are specified, a decimal, octal, or hexadecimal number of +bytes is expected. If the number ends with a ``b'', ``k'', ``m'', ``g'', or ``w'', the number is multiplied by 512, 1024 (1K), 1048576 (1M), 1073741824 (1G) or the number of bytes in an integer, respectively. |