GNU bug report logs - #14846
doc: dd: improve ibs=BYTES description

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 03:42:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: notabug

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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14846 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14846: dd how to skip one byte from reading the man page
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 15:20:06 -0600

tags 14846 notabug
severity 14846 wishlist
retitle 14846 doc: dd: improve ibs=BYTES description
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 12/07/13 10:49 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 07/12/2013 12:50 AM, jidanni <at> jidanni.org wrote:
>>
>> it seems
>>         ibs=BYTES
>>                read up to BYTES bytes at a time (default: 512)
>> should be instead
>>         ibs=BYTES
>>                reset the input block size (default: 512)
>> or something...
> 
> Hmm I suppose a more direct description is more accurate.
> 

Marking as "wishlist".

Patches welcomed.


-assaf
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