GNU coreutils 9.1 released

Posted Apr 17, 2022 5:48 UTC (Sun) by osandov (subscriber, #97963)
Parent article: GNU coreutils 9.1 released

> dd now counts bytes instead of blocks if a block count ends in "B".

Wow that'll be super convenient. Remembering how to specify count_bytes, skip_bytes, etc. is always annoying.

GNU coreutils 9.1 released

Posted Apr 17, 2022 6:56 UTC (Sun) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link] (1 responses)

Also really appreciating iseek and oseek, as much more memorable aliases.

GNU coreutils 9.1 released

Posted Apr 21, 2022 11:30 UTC (Thu) by Villemoes (subscriber, #91911) [Link]

After realizing 'man dd' appeared embarrassingly often in my .bash_history, I recently discovered a mnemonic to distinguish 'seek' and 'skip': there's an 'i' in skip, so that one goes with 'if='.

GNU coreutils 9.1 released

Posted Apr 21, 2022 5:53 UTC (Thu) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325) [Link]

Well that's easy, just set bs=1 and then everything is in bytes!

(Do not actually do this, it is hilariously inefficient because each byte will be a separate read/write.)