dd patch for coreutils-like third status line

Gabor Heja kakaopor at kakaopor.hu
Sun Oct 11 23:36:02 UTC 2009


Hi all,

I have attached a patch that adds a third status line with transferred
bytes, transferred amount of data in human readable format, elapsed seconds
and speed of transfer for the output of the dd applet, like the one in the
Debian's coreutils package. Actually its behaviour differs from the
coreutils' one: it does not change the unit dynamically, instead it always
uses megabytes for human readable format and speed.

The patch fixes a possible typo in the dd's part of Config.in: the help
shows the status lines as one, however the real applet displays the in and
out blocks in separate lines.

If anything should be modified in the patch, or I made something wrong,
please let me know.

Best regards,
 Gabor




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