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ioping: add hints for units into manpage
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
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@@ -85,10 +85,10 @@ default is seconds, unless you specify one of the following suffixes
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(case-insensitive):
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.TP
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.BR us ,\ usec
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microseconds
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microseconds (a millionth of a second, 1 / 1 000 000)
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.TP
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.BR ms ,\ msec
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milliseconds
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milliseconds (a thousandth of a second, 1 / 1 000)
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.TP
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.BR s ,\ sec
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seconds
@@ -107,19 +107,19 @@ default is bytes, unless you specify one of the following suffixes
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disk sectors (a sector is always 512).
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.TP
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.BR KiB ,\ k ,\ kb
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kilobytes
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kilobytes (1 024 bytes)
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.TP
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.B page
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memory pages (a page is always 4KiB).
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.BR MiB ,\ m ,\ mb
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megabytes
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megabytes (1 048 576 bytes)
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.TP
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.BR GiB ,\ g ,\ gb
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gigabytes
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gigabytes (1 073 741 824 bytes)
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.BR TiB ,\ t ,\ tb
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terabytes
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terabytes (1 099 511 627 776 bytes)
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.PP
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For options that expect "number" argument (\fB-p\fR and \fB-c\fR) you
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can optionally specify one of the following suffixes (case-insensitive):

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