From: Benno Schulenberg Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:58:42 +0000 (+0200) Subject: dd: remove references to the word BLOCKS from help and texi docs X-Git-Tag: v8.20~37 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=627412847ef8972e84d4ed957fe1bed4f018bd2c;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git dd: remove references to the word BLOCKS from help and texi docs The renaming from BLOCKS to N was done in v8.15-38-g140eca1, and documentation for N was added again in v8.17-26-g4f2e9d5 without noticing that. Now, finally remove the word BLOCKS from the documentation. * src/dd.c (usage): Remove the word BLOCKS. * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Likewise. Improved by: Bernhard Voelker --- diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index cb4ad838d8..c0abd7fa13 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -8413,7 +8413,7 @@ affected file descriptors, even after @command{dd} exits. @end table @cindex multipliers after numbers -The numeric-valued strings above (@var{n}, @var{bytes} and @var{blocks}) +The numeric-valued strings above (@var{n} and @var{bytes}) can be followed by a multiplier: @samp{b}=512, @samp{c}=1, @samp{w}=2, @samp{x@var{m}}=@var{m}, or any of the standard block size suffixes like @samp{k}=1024 (@pxref{Block size}). diff --git a/src/dd.c b/src/dd.c index 2ebbfae865..de514355e6 100644 --- a/src/dd.c +++ b/src/dd.c @@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands.\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ \n\ -N, BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:\n\ +N and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:\n\ c =1, w =2, b =512, kB =1000, K =1024, MB =1000*1000, M =1024*1024, xM =M\n\ GB =1000*1000*1000, G =1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.\n\ \n\