wow. thanks a bunch for all the great info.
Matthew Seaman schrieb am 2009-06-24:
> Alexander Best wrote:
> > hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to
> > indicate
> > kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever
> > standard
> > telling app developers
Quoting Alexander Best :
hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to indicate
kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever standard
telling app developers what to use?
Actually thats only BSD's dd. GNU dd only accepts uppercase letters.
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Alexander Best wrote:
> hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to indicate
> kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever standard
> telling app developers what to use?
It might be appropriate to use expand_number() here. This is what some
other tools d
Alexander Best wrote:
> hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to indicate
> kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever standard
> telling app developers what to use?
Sure. The standard for scale-prefixes is defined by the Systeme
Internationale as pa
hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to indicate
kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever standard
telling app developers what to use?
Wojciech Puchar schrieb am 2009-06-17:
> >>cheers.
> >Are you sure this is wise? after all 125 millibytes wou
+--- Julian Elischer, 2009-06-17 ---
| Alexander Best wrote:
| >hi everybody,
| >
| >here's just a quick hack i applied to find. i very often use the -size
| >switch
| >and always forget if you need to append "m" or "M" for megabyte or "k" or
| >"K"
| >for kilobyte. after applying the pat
cheers.
Are you sure this is wise? after all 125 millibytes would be 1 bit..
Agree. While lots of people use m instead of M and b instead of B, this is
not right to correct proper behavior to improper just for them.
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Alexander Best wrote:
hi everybody,
here's just a quick hack i applied to find. i very often use the -size switch
and always forget if you need to append "m" or "M" for megabyte or "k" or "K"
for kilobyte. after applying the patch find accepts both. ;-)
cheers.
Are you sure this is wise? aft
hi everybody,
here's just a quick hack i applied to find. i very often use the -size switch
and always forget if you need to append "m" or "M" for megabyte or "k" or "K"
for kilobyte. after applying the patch find accepts both. ;-)
cheers.
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