From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:17:10 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: hexdump: update man page for -n and -s
X-Git-Tag: v2.22-rc1~614
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hexdump: update man page for -n and -s

Reported-by: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/text-utils/hexdump.1 b/text-utils/hexdump.1
index cbb14fb85b..0b3a5256f1 100644
--- a/text-utils/hexdump.1
+++ b/text-utils/hexdump.1
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ utility is a filter which displays the specified files, or
 standard input if no files are specified, in a user-specified
 format.
 .SH OPTIONS
+The \fIlength\fR and \fIoffset\fR arguments may be followed by binary (2^N)
+suffixes KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB and EiB (the "iB" is optional, e.g. "K" has the
+same meaning as "KiB") or decimal (10^N) suffixes KB, MB, GB, PB and EB.
 .TP
 .B \-b
 \fIOne-byte octal display\fR.  Display the input offset in hexadecimal,
@@ -90,29 +93,7 @@ quantities of input data, in octal, per line.
 .BI \-s \ offset
 Skip
 .I offset
-bytes from the beginning of the input.  By default,
-.I offset
-is interpreted as a decimal number.  With a leading
-.B 0x
-or
-.BR 0X ,
-.I offset
-is interpreted as a hexadecimal number, otherwise, with a leading
-.BR 0 ,
-.I offset
-is interpreted as an octal number.  Appending the character
-.BR b ,
-.BR k ,
-or
-.B m
-to
-.I offset
-causes it to be interpreted as a multiple of
-.IR 512 ,
-.IR 1024 ,
-or
-.IR 1048576 ,
-respectively.
+bytes from the beginning of the input.
 .TP
 .B \-v
 The