[patch #4978] hexadecimal support for dd

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                 Summary: hexadecimal support for dd
                 Project: GNU Core Utilities
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Fri 03/17/06 at 13:11
                Category: None
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open

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Details:

This patch adds support for parsing hexadecimal numbers to dd.
So instead of writing:

 dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=`perl -e 'printf("%d",0xe0000);'` count=1

you can just write

 dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=0xe0000 count=1

It's a feature I use everyday and I'd be really glad if you could take it
into the official release of GNU coreutils.



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Date: Fri 03/17/06 at 13:11  Name: dd.diff  Size: 667B   By: None
Patch to add hexadecimal support to dd, against coreutils CVS from 2006-03-17
<http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/download.php?item_id=4978&item_file_id=6048>

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