On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 03:14:47PM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote: > the final output of 'dd' is in "SI mode" (or how to call it). It > uses 10^6 instead of 2^20 for "megabyte". ... > Is there a switch to display in "traditional" units
Not in dd itself, afaik. Recent-ish coreutils versions have 'numfmt', which can be used as a filter. E.g. > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/sdf bs=1M count=4 2>&1 | tail -1 > 4194304 bytes (4.2 MB) copied, 0.00476939 s, 879 MB/s > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/sdf bs=1M count=4 2>&1 |tail -1|numfmt --from=si > --to=iec-i > 4.0Mi bytes (4.2 MB) copied, 0.00476939 s, 879 MB/s Note that it only converted the first number. fields, you may want to / have to write some glue. See http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/numfmt.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140715143724.gb9...@bryant.redmars.org
