forcemerge 14113 7176 stop On 04/01/2013 01:38 PM, Mihai Capotă wrote: > The units used in the outputs of "human-readable" and "si" look > identical when "K/k" is not present. Add two block_size_args, "binary" > and "decimal", that disambiguate between the outputs of "human-readable" > and "si" by adding human_B to the list of options. > > See bug 7176 in GNU coreutils, > <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7176>. > --- > lib/human.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/lib/human.c b/lib/human.c > index 613dc65..66a1835 100644 > --- a/lib/human.c > +++ b/lib/human.c > @@ -394,11 +394,21 @@ human_readable (uintmax_t n, char *buf, int opts, > # define DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE 1024 > #endif > > -static char const *const block_size_args[] = { "human-readable", "si", 0 }; > +static char const *const block_size_args[] = > + { > + "human-readable", > + "si", > + "binary", > + "decimal", > + 0 > + }; > + > static int const block_size_opts[] = > { > human_autoscale + human_SI + human_base_1024, > - human_autoscale + human_SI > + human_autoscale + human_SI, > + human_autoscale + human_SI + human_base_1024 + human_B, > + human_autoscale + human_SI + human_B > };
So I was 50:50 on making this change, and in the meantime numfmt(1) was released, which gives full control over number formatting, albeit in a more verbose/explicit form. thanks, Pádraig
