Hello Michael, On 19/08/17 01:27 PM, Michael Weiss wrote: > Imho the units used in the output of df, du, ls, etc. with the > -h/--human-readable option can be very misleading/ambiguous and in the > case of -h/--human-readable even wrong according to standards.
[...] > Old: > 114M fileA > 120M fileA > New: > 114MiB fileA > 120MB fileA [...] > - http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/numfmt.1.html You've mentioned numfmt(1), it's worth noting that your request is exactly what numfmt was designed to do. The following commands will display df/du/ls output in SI and IEC-I units, giving the output you wanted: ls -l | numfmt --suffix B --field=5 --to=si ls -l | numfmt --suffix B --field=5 --to=iec-i du | numfmt --format "%-10f" --suffix B --field 1 --to=si du | numfmt --format "%-10f" --suffix B --field 1 --to=iec-i df | numfmt --suffix B --header --field=2-4 --to=si df | numfmt --suffix B --header --field=2-4 --to=iec-i And these can be rather easily put into a shell function so it'll be easy to use: df_si() { df "$@" | numfmt --suffix B --header --field=2-4 --to=si ; } Note that numfmt with multiple fields requires coreutils 8.24 or later (but since you're using 8.27 it should not be a problem). Hope this helps, - assaf
