-.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.35.
-.TH DD "1" "March 2012" "GNU coreutils 8.16" "User Commands"
+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.3.
+.TH DD "1" "January 2016" "GNU coreutils 8.25" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
dd \- convert and copy a file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dd
-[\fIOPERAND\fR]...
+[\fI\,OPERAND\/\fR]...
.br
.B dd
-\fIOPTION\fR
+\fI\,OPTION\/\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
.\" Add any additional description here
.PP
skip=N
skip N ibs\-sized blocks at start of input
.TP
-status=noxfer
-suppress transfer statistics
+status=LEVEL
+The LEVEL of information to print to stderr;
+\&'none' suppresses everything but error messages,
+\&'noxfer' suppresses the final transfer statistics,
+\&'progress' shows periodic transfer statistics
.PP
-BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:
+N and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:
c =1, w =2, b =512, kB =1000, K =1024, MB =1000*1000, M =1024*1024, xM =M
GB =1000*1000*1000, G =1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.
.PP
do not update access time
.TP
nocache
-discard cached data
+Request to drop cache. See also oflag=sync
.TP
noctty
do not assign controlling terminal from file
.PP
Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it
print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying.
-.IP
-\f(CW$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$!\fR
-.br
-\f(CW$ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid\fR
-.IP
-18335302+0 records in
-18335302+0 records out
-9387674624 bytes (9.4 GB) copied, 34.6279 seconds, 271 MB/s
.PP
Options are:
.TP
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
-Report dd bugs to bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
-.br
-GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
-.br
-General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
+GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
.br
Report dd translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
.SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright \(co 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-The full documentation for
-.B dd
-is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
-.B info
-and
-.B dd
-programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-.IP
-.B info coreutils \(aqdd invocation\(aq
-.PP
-should give you access to the complete manual.
+Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/dd>
+.br
+or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) dd invocation\(aq