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| -rw-r--r-- | bin/dd/dd.1 | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/dd/dd.1 b/bin/dd/dd.1 index 49831dfdff57..32260e90b874 100644 --- a/bin/dd/dd.1 +++ b/bin/dd/dd.1 @@ -282,7 +282,8 @@ appended. .El .El .Pp -Where sizes are specified, a decimal number of bytes is expected. +Where sizes are specified, a decimal, octal, or hexadecimal number of +bytes is expected. If the number ends with a ``b'', ``k'', ``m'', ``g'', or ``w'', the number is multiplied by 512, 1024 (1K), 1048576 (1M), 1073741824 (1G) or the number of bytes in an integer, respectively. |