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| author | gsutter <gsutter@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-02-18 04:55:40 +0000 |
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| committer | gsutter <gsutter@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-02-18 04:55:40 +0000 |
| commit | b5faf349c6ddc1cb788296517e4141b177d4562d (patch) | |
| tree | 7db5bc6a94abff4fb80b1fed97f941eca6cd1535 /bin/dd | |
| parent | ca82a4c70fe09ad8089c25a5034b6a8ec5f3faa8 (diff) | |
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Reflect that dd accepts octal and hexadecimal numbers (in addition to decimal).
PR: 16750
Submitted by: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/dd')
| -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 49831df..32260e9 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. |
