Le Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:52:20 +0800, Dan Jacobson disait : > On both the dd man and Info pages, we see > count=BLOCKS > copy only BLOCKS input blocks > OK, but one must use ones brain, heavens forbid, to figure out that > e.g., these > > bs=BYTES > force ibs=BYTES and obs=BYTES > > ibs=BYTES > read BYTES bytes at a time > > change the block size. Because you don't say that that is what they > do. You just say "bytes at a time", and the user has to figure out the > connection to BLOCKS and them.
Hello, Here is a patch that may change this. Do you think it is better that way ? Jim : I already have signed the FSF agreement for coreutils :-) @sOOn, -- Olivier Delhomme : http://blog.delhomme.org/ [fr]
--- coreutils/doc/coreutils.texi 2006-12-14 15:46:08.000000000 +0100
+++ coreutils_modified/doc/coreutils.texi 2006-12-20 20:15:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -7155,25 +7155,26 @@
@opindex ibs
@cindex block size of input
@cindex input block size
-Read @var{bytes} bytes at a time.
+Sets the input block size to @var{bytes}. dd will read @var{bytes} per block.
@item [EMAIL PROTECTED]
@opindex obs
@cindex block size of output
@cindex output block size
-Write @var{bytes} bytes at a time.
+Sets the output block size to @var{bytes}. dd will write @var{bytes} per block.
@item [EMAIL PROTECTED]
@opindex bs
@cindex block size
-Both read and write @var{bytes} bytes at a time. This overrides
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and @samp{obs}.
+Sets both input and output block sizes to @var{bytes}. dd will read and write
[EMAIL PROTECTED] per block. This overrides @samp{ibs} and @samp{obs}.
@item [EMAIL PROTECTED]
@opindex cbs
@cindex block size of conversion
@cindex conversion block size
-Convert @var{bytes} bytes at a time.
+Sets the conversion block size to @var{bytes}. dd will convert @var{bytes}
+per block.
@item [EMAIL PROTECTED]
@opindex skip
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