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authorjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1997-10-11 20:09:05 +0000
committerjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1997-10-11 20:09:05 +0000
commit4841b45bbe197e54bb7732317930e8591d51362c (patch)
tree2bbaeb532cca6a0c260f5fc674f9d1d0ce9b10cb /bin/dd/args.c
parent11466e2a6f0898af142d8fbff4ead6b7078c6e04 (diff)
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Teach dd(1) about an option to write sparse files. Can be useful for
things like diskless clients' swap files etc. Submitted by: pascal@zuo.dec.com (Pascal Pederiva) (ages ago, with many stylistic changes by me)
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/dd/args.c')
-rw-r--r--bin/dd/args.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/dd/args.c b/bin/dd/args.c
index c5a14f7..f1e556a 100644
--- a/bin/dd/args.c
+++ b/bin/dd/args.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
* OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
* SUCH DAMAGE.
*
- * $Id: args.c,v 1.8 1997/02/22 14:02:41 peter Exp $
+ * $Id: args.c,v 1.9 1997/10/08 12:10:33 eivind Exp $
*/
#ifndef lint
@@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ static struct conv {
{ "oldascii", C_ASCII, C_EBCDIC, e2a_32V },
{ "oldebcdic", C_EBCDIC, C_ASCII, a2e_32V },
{ "oldibm", C_EBCDIC, C_ASCII, a2ibm_32V },
+ { "sparse", C_SPARSE, 0, NULL },
{ "osync", C_OSYNC, C_BS, NULL },
{ "swab", C_SWAB, 0, NULL },
{ "sync", C_SYNC, 0, NULL },
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