From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 28 03:13:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 071F8106564A for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:13:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D8D8FC08 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:13:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn4 with SMTP id 4so297389iwn.13 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.161.135 with SMTP id r7mr4859226ibx.47.1277694824201; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:13:44 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.194.147 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:13:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C256135.5030708@a1poweruser.com> References: <4C256135.5030708@a1poweruser.com> From: Eitan Adler Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:13:24 -0400 Message-ID: To: Fbsd1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: size suffix w x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:13:45 -0000 > I have a script I am hacking. The code has a check for a size suffix. > I know what m|mb|g|gb|k|kb| and the upper case version of the same letters > mean. But the code also has an w|x size options. > Is this a valid size type and what does it mean? Are you looking at the expand_number(3) function? It is very hard to help you unless you give more details. -- Eitan Adler