The renaming from BLOCKS to N was done in v8.15-38-g140eca1,
and documentation for N was added again in v8.17-26-g4f2e9d5
without noticing that. Now, finally remove the word BLOCKS
from the documentation.
* src/dd.c (usage): Remove the word BLOCKS.
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Likewise.
Improved by: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
@end table
@cindex multipliers after numbers
-The numeric-valued strings above (@var{n}, @var{bytes} and @var{blocks})
+The numeric-valued strings above (@var{n} and @var{bytes})
can be followed by a multiplier: @samp{b}=512, @samp{c}=1,
@samp{w}=2, @samp{x@var{m}}=@var{m}, or any of the
standard block size suffixes like @samp{k}=1024 (@pxref{Block size}).
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
\n\
-N, BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:\n\
+N and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:\n\
c =1, w =2, b =512, kB =1000, K =1024, MB =1000*1000, M =1024*1024, xM =M\n\
GB =1000*1000*1000, G =1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.\n\
\n\