From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 07:28:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (usage): Mention that sync makes dd pad with spaces (rather than NULs)
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-2_0_14~17
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f553273be874c4c90d0eaaf98faf21152dcf5022;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(usage): Mention that sync makes dd pad with spaces (rather than NULs)
when used with block or unblock.
---

diff --git a/src/dd.c b/src/dd.c
index 7d8c78b851..22fc69ca6a 100644
--- a/src/dd.c
+++ b/src/dd.c
@@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ Each KEYWORD may be:\n\
   ucase     change lower case to upper case\n\
   swab      swap every pair of input bytes\n\
   noerror   continue after read errors\n\
-  sync      pad every input block with NULs to ibs-size\n\
+  sync      pad every input block with NULs to ibs-size; when used\n\
+              block or unblock, pad with spaces rather than NULs\n\
 "));
       puts (_("\nReport bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>."));
     }