Package: coreutils
Version: 6.10-6
Severity: wishlist
dd is typically the sort of program where one would like to enter
numbers (for bs, count, skip and seek) in hex (or possibly octal)
format. Unfortunately, dd won't parse them:
pleiades david ~ $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=0x1000 count=1
dd: invalid number `0x1000'
Could you parse numbers as per scanf("%i",...) or strtoll(...,0)?
(I realize that octal is a possible breakage risk, because who knows
who numbers with leading zeroes for decimal, so I don't know what the
principle of least surprise says here; but parsing hex numbers would
really be useful.)
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David A. Madore
(david.mad...@ens.fr,
http://www.madore.org/~david/ )
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