fork(2) download
  1. #!/bin/bash
  2. for bs in 1k 1K 1KiB 1kB; do
  3. echo -n "$bs : "
  4. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=$bs count=1 2>&1 | grep copied
  5. done
Success #stdin #stdout 0s 19632KB
stdin
Standard input is empty
stdout
1k : 1024 bytes (1.0 kB, 1.0 KiB) copied, 4.5187e-05 s, 22.7 MB/s
1K : 1024 bytes (1.0 kB, 1.0 KiB) copied, 3.6521e-05 s, 28.0 MB/s
1KiB : 1024 bytes (1.0 kB, 1.0 KiB) copied, 3.6026e-05 s, 28.4 MB/s
1kB : 1000 bytes (1.0 kB) copied, 3.5964e-05 s, 27.8 MB/s