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bug#12212: [patch] dd's help text contains superfluous word


From: Bernhard Voelker
Subject: bug#12212: [patch] dd's help text contains superfluous word
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:24:23 +0200
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On 08/17/2012 08:30 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Re: [PATCH 1/2] dd: the word BLOCKS no longer occurs in the help text
> 
> On 08/16/2012 06:45 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The help text of dd now mentions that the word BLOCKS can
>> be replaced with something.  But the word BLOCKS does not
>> occur any longer in the entire help text.  Attached patch
>> removes the superfluous mention.
> 
> argh, that renaming from BLOCKS to N was done in v8.15-38-g140eca1,
> and I added the documentation for N again in v8.17-26-g4f2e9d5
> without noticing that. Sorry for that.
> 
> BLOCKS is still mentioned in coreutils.texi.
> Here's the fix:
> 
> diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
> index 62b31fe..265d2e5 100644
> --- a/doc/coreutils.texi
> +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
> @@ -8402,7 +8402,7 @@ 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, @address@hidden@var{m}, or any of the
>  standard block size suffixes like @samp{k}=1024 (@pxref{Block size}).
> 
> 
> Have a nice day,
> Berny

Anyone catching up on Benno's patch with my addendum?
(I'm not sure about the second patch though.)

Have a nice day,
Berny





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