1 ." DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.5.1.2.
2 .TH DD 1 "November 1998" "GNU fileutils 4.0" "FSF"
4 dd \- convert and copy a file
10 .\" Add any additional description here
12 Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the options.
15 force ibs=BYTES and obs=BYTES
18 convert BYTES bytes at a time
21 convert the file as per the comma separated keyword list
24 copy only BLOCKS input blocks
27 read BYTES bytes at a time
30 read from FILE instead of stdin
33 write BYTES bytes at a time
36 write to FILE instead of stdout
39 skip BLOCKS obs-sized blocks at start of output
42 skip BLOCKS ibs-sized blocks at start of input
45 display this help and exit
48 output version information and exit
50 BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:
51 xM M, c 1, w 2, b 512, kD 1000, k 1024, MD 1,000,000, M 1,048,576,
52 GD 1,000,000,000, G 1,073,741,824, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.
62 from ASCII to alternated EBCDIC
65 pad newline-terminated records with spaces to cbs-size
68 replace trailing spaces in cbs-size records with newline
71 change upper case to lower case
74 do not truncate the output file
77 change lower case to upper case
80 swap every pair of input bytes
83 continue after read errors
86 pad every input block with NULs to ibs-size
88 Report bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>.
90 The full documentation for
92 is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
96 programs are properly installed at your site, the command
100 should give you access to the complete manual.