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Bug #2556

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dd should accept M,G,T,... for sizes

Added by Josef Sipek about 11 years ago. Updated about 11 years ago.

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Resolved
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Low
Assignee:
Josef Sipek
Category:
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Start date:
2012-03-28
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% Done:

100%

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Description

dd accepts 'k' suffix to mean multiply-by-1024. GNU dd accepts other suffixes to represent mega, giga, etc.

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 #1

Updated by Rich Lowe about 11 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 30 to 100
  • Tags deleted (needs-triage)

Resolved in r13670 commit:25dba56d858d

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Updated by Richard PALO about 11 years ago

for your reading pleasure
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

GNU's not Unix, it's not SI nor IEC either

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Updated by Josef Sipek about 11 years ago

I checked the GNU dd's man page. They say:

       BLOCKS  and  BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes: c =1, w =2, b =512,
       kB =1000, K =1024, MB =1000*1000, M =1024*1024, xM =M GB =1000*1000*1000, G =1024*1024*1024, and
       so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.

I added [MGTPEZ] but not [MGTPEZ]B which would require a whole lot more parsing code.

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