." DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.5.1.2. .TH DD 1 "November 1998" "GNU fileutils 4.0" "FSF" .SH NAME dd \- convert and copy a file .SH SYNOPSIS .B dd [\fIOPTION\fR]... .SH DESCRIPTION .PP .\" Add any additional description here .PP Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the options. .TP bs=BYTES force ibs=BYTES and obs=BYTES .TP cbs=BYTES convert BYTES bytes at a time .TP conv=KEYWORDS convert the file as per the comma separated keyword list .TP count=BLOCKS copy only BLOCKS input blocks .TP ibs=BYTES read BYTES bytes at a time .TP if=FILE read from FILE instead of stdin .TP obs=BYTES write BYTES bytes at a time .TP of=FILE write to FILE instead of stdout .TP seek=BLOCKS skip BLOCKS obs-sized blocks at start of output .TP skip=BLOCKS skip BLOCKS ibs-sized blocks at start of input .TP \fB\-\-help\fR display this help and exit .TP \fB\-\-version\fR output version information and exit .PP BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes: xM M, c 1, w 2, b 512, kD 1000, k 1024, MD 1,000,000, M 1,048,576, GD 1,000,000,000, G 1,073,741,824, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y. Each KEYWORD may be: .TP ascii from EBCDIC to ASCII .TP ebcdic from ASCII to EBCDIC .TP ibm from ASCII to alternated EBCDIC .TP block pad newline-terminated records with spaces to cbs-size .TP unblock replace trailing spaces in cbs-size records with newline .TP lcase change upper case to lower case .TP notrunc do not truncate the output file .TP ucase change lower case to upper case .TP swab swap every pair of input bytes .TP noerror continue after read errors .TP sync pad every input block with NULs to ibs-size .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Report bugs to . .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 dd .PP should give you access to the complete manual.