holes — find runs of zero bytes
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Description
holes looks for runs of zero bytes (a.k.a. holes) in the specified input files (or the standard input),
and prints the start addresses (in hexadecimal) as well as the lengths (in decimal). When multiple input
files are specified, holes prefixes each line with the file name.
The options are as follows:
-bbyte
Count runs of byte, a number between 0 and 255, instead of zero bytes.
-nminlen
Change minimum size of holes reported. By default, only holes of at least 64 bytes are reported.
-s Print a summary at the end how many percent of the file are runs of zeroes.
Exit Status
The holes utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
License
holes is in the public domain.
To the extent possible under law, the creator of this work has waived all copyright and related or
neighboring rights to this work.
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Debian November 8, 2017 HOLES(1)
Name
holes — find runs of zero bytes
See Also
fallocate(1), truncate(1), virt-sparsify(1)
Synopsis
holes [-bbyte] [-nminlen] [-s] [files...]
