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For GNU dd(coreutils) 9.1, you can directly use B suffix to skip bytes rather than blocks, which replaces the old way iflag=skip_bytes.

skip=N (or iseek=N) skip N ibs-sized input blocks 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. Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on. If N ends in 'B', it counts bytes not blocks.

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skip=N (or iseek=N) skip N ibs-sized input blocks

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. Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on. If N ends in B, it counts bytes not blocks.

For GNU dd(coreutils) 9.1, you can directly use B suffix to skip bytes rather than blocks, which replaces the old way iflag=skip_bytes.

skip=N (or iseek=N) skip N ibs-sized input blocks 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. Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on. If N ends in 'B', it counts bytes not blocks.

For GNU dd(coreutils) 9.1, you can directly use B suffix to skip bytes rather than blocks, which replaces the old way iflag=skip_bytes.

From the man page:

skip=N (or iseek=N) skip N ibs-sized input blocks

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. Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on. If N ends in B, it counts bytes not blocks.

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For GNU dd(coreutils) 9.1, you can directly use B suffix to skip bytes rather than blocks, which replaces the old way iflag=skip_bytes.

skip=N (or iseek=N) skip N ibs-sized input blocks 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. Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on. If N ends in 'B', it counts bytes not blocks.

For GNU dd(coreutils) 9.1, you can directly use B suffix to skip bytes rather than blocks.

skip=N (or iseek=N) skip N ibs-sized input blocks 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. Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on. If N ends in 'B', it counts bytes not blocks.

For GNU dd(coreutils) 9.1, you can directly use B suffix to skip bytes rather than blocks, which replaces the old way iflag=skip_bytes.

skip=N (or iseek=N) skip N ibs-sized input blocks 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. Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on. If N ends in 'B', it counts bytes not blocks.

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answered May 1, 2023 at 5:23

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For GNU dd(coreutils) 9.1, you can directly use B suffix to skip bytes rather than blocks.

skip=N (or iseek=N) skip N ibs-sized input blocks 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. Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on. If N ends in 'B', it counts bytes not blocks.