#!/bin/bash for bs in 1k 1K 1KiB 1kB; do echo -n "$bs : " dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=$bs count=1 2>&1 | grep copied done
Standard input is empty
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