On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Let me see if I can convince you with a use case. If you set "BLOCK_SIZE=binary" in your shell configuration file, you get the output you want from all programs that use gnulib. That's not only about verbosity, it's something that cannot be easily done with numfmt. Mihai
