On 07/16/2014 03:45 AM, Christian Groessler wrote: > Hi, > > the final output of 'dd' is in "SI mode" (or how to call it). It uses 10^6 > instead of 2^20 for "megabyte". > > Example: > > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=65536 count=4096 > 4096+0 records in > 4096+0 records out > 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 0.0248346 s, 10.8 GB/s > $ > > Is there a switch to display in "traditional" units, I'd like to have > > 268435456 bytes (256 MB) copied, ...
http://bugs.gnu.org/17505#37 was proposed do the following automatically (depending on the amount output): 268435456 bytes (256 MiB) copied, 0.0248346 s, 10.8 GB/s However that wasn't applied due to inconsistency concerns. I'm still of the opinion that the change above would be a net gain, as the number in brackets is for human interpretation, and in the vast majority of cases would be the best representation for that. Pádraig.