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1 perry 1 !!NAME
3 JohnMcPherson 2 dd - convert and copy a file
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4 !!SYNOPSIS
3 JohnMcPherson 5 __dd__ [[''OPTION'']...
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7 !!DESCRIPTION
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3 JohnMcPherson 10 Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the options.
11 ;bs=BYTES : force ibs=BYTES and obs=BYTES
12 ;cbs=BYTES : convert BYTES bytes at a time
13 ;conv=KEYWORDS : convert the file as per the comma separated keyword list
14 ;count=BLOCKS : copy only BLOCKS input blocks
15 ;ibs=BYTES : read BYTES bytes at a time
16 ;if=FILE : read from FILE instead of stdin
17 ;obs=BYTES : write BYTES bytes at a time
18 ;of=FILE : write to FILE instead of stdout
19 ;seek=BLOCKS : skip BLOCKS obs-sized blocks at start of output
20 ;skip=BLOCKS : skip BLOCKS ibs-sized blocks at start of input
21 ;__- help__ : display this help and exit
22 ;__- version__ : output version information and exit
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3 JohnMcPherson 24 BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes: xM M, c 1, w 2, b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1,000,000, M 1,048,576, GB 1,000,000,000, G 1,073,741,824, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y. Each KEYWORD may be:
25 ;ascii : from EBCDIC to ASCII
26 ;ebcdic : from ASCII to EBCDIC
27 ;ibm : from ASCII to alternated EBCDIC
28 ;block : pad newline-terminated records with spaces to cbs-size
29 ;unblock : replace trailing spaces in cbs-size records with newline
30 ;lcase : change upper case to lower case
31 ;notrunc : do not truncate the output file
32 ;ucase : change lower case to upper case
33 ;swab : swap every pair of input bytes
34 ;noerror : continue after read errors
35 ;sync : pad every input block with NULs to ibs-size; when used
36 ;: with block or unblock, pad with spaces rather than NULs
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38 !!AUTHOR
3 JohnMcPherson 39 Written by Paul Rubin, David !MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp.
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41 !!REPORTING BUGS
3 JohnMcPherson 42 Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
1 perry 43 !!COPYRIGHT
3 JohnMcPherson 44 Copyright © 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
45 This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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47 !!SEE ALSO
3 JohnMcPherson 48 The full documentation for __dd__ is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the __info__ and __dd__ programs are properly installed at your site, the command
49 ;: __info dd__
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51 should give you access to the complete manual.
4 JohnMcPherson 52
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