This patch adds the familiar command line switches -b, -k, -m and -g to the
free command. Its far easier to use "-m" to check whether the system logged
into has 20 MB, 200 MB or 2 GB of RAM.

I also put up the commit on github:
http://github.com/wertarbyte/busybox/commit/0c41db201d4467290daddb23bfb3bfc07a725d1d
---
 include/usage.src.h |    8 +++++-
 procps/free.c       |   75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
 2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/usage.src.h b/include/usage.src.h
index c26ed8b..f4b8ac7 100644
--- a/include/usage.src.h
+++ b/include/usage.src.h
@@ -1303,7 +1303,13 @@ INSERT
 #define free_trivial_usage \
        ""
 #define free_full_usage "\n\n" \
-       "Display the amount of free and used system memory"
+       "Display the amount of free and used system memory" \
+     "\nOptions:" \
+     "\n       -b      show output in bytes" \
+     "\n       -k      show output in KB" \
+     "\n       -m      show output in MB" \
+     "\n       -g      show output in GB" \
+
 #define free_example_usage \
        "$ free\n" \
        "              total         used         free       shared      
buffers\n" \
diff --git a/procps/free.c b/procps/free.c
index be65f46..fa2fa95 100644
--- a/procps/free.c
+++ b/procps/free.c
@@ -16,10 +16,33 @@ int free_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv 
IF_NOT_DESKTOP(UNUSED_PARAM))
 {
        struct sysinfo info;
        unsigned mem_unit;
+       /*
+        * Convert numbers to a more readable format by dividing
+        * unit_steps times by 1024 (kB->MB->GB)
+        */
+#define SI_UNIT(d) ((d) >> (10*(unit_steps)))
 
+       /* we like to use kbytes as our default unit */
+       int unit_steps = 1;
 #if ENABLE_DESKTOP
-       if (argv[1] && argv[1][0] == '-')
-               bb_show_usage();
+       if (argv[1] && argv[1][0] == '-') {
+                switch (argv[1][1]) {
+                       case 'b':
+                               unit_steps = 0;
+                               break;
+                       case 'k': /* 2^10 */
+                               unit_steps = 1;
+                               break;
+                       case 'm': /* 2^(2*10) */
+                               unit_steps = 2;
+                               break;
+                       case 'g': /* 2^(3*10) */
+                               unit_steps = 3;
+                               break;
+                       default:
+                               bb_show_usage();
+               }
+       }
 #endif
 
        sysinfo(&info);
@@ -30,28 +53,16 @@ int free_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv 
IF_NOT_DESKTOP(UNUSED_PARAM))
                mem_unit = info.mem_unit;
        }
 
-       /* Convert values to kbytes */
-       if (mem_unit == 1) {
-               info.totalram >>= 10;
-               info.freeram >>= 10;
-#if BB_MMU
-               info.totalswap >>= 10;
-               info.freeswap >>= 10;
-#endif
-               info.sharedram >>= 10;
-               info.bufferram >>= 10;
-       } else {
-               mem_unit >>= 10;
-               /* TODO:  Make all this stuff not overflow when mem >= 4 Tb */
-               info.totalram *= mem_unit;
-               info.freeram *= mem_unit;
+       /* Convert values to bytes */
+       /* TODO:  Make all this stuff not overflow when mem >= 4 Tb */
+       info.totalram *= mem_unit;
+       info.freeram *= mem_unit;
 #if BB_MMU
-               info.totalswap *= mem_unit;
-               info.freeswap *= mem_unit;
+       info.totalswap *= mem_unit;
+       info.freeswap *= mem_unit;
 #endif
-               info.sharedram *= mem_unit;
-               info.bufferram *= mem_unit;
-       }
+       info.sharedram *= mem_unit;
+       info.bufferram *= mem_unit;
 
        printf("     %13s%13s%13s%13s%13s\n",
                "total",
@@ -66,27 +77,29 @@ int free_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv 
IF_NOT_DESKTOP(UNUSED_PARAM))
 #define FIELDS_5 "%13lu%13lu%13lu%13lu%13lu\n"
 #define FIELDS_3 (FIELDS_5 + 2*5)
 #define FIELDS_2 (FIELDS_5 + 3*5)
+
        printf("Mem: ");
        printf(FIELDS_5,
-               info.totalram,
-               info.totalram - info.freeram,
-               info.freeram,
-               info.sharedram, info.bufferram
+               SI_UNIT(info.totalram),
+               SI_UNIT(info.totalram - info.freeram),
+               SI_UNIT(info.freeram),
+               SI_UNIT(info.sharedram),
+               SI_UNIT(info.bufferram)
        );
        /* Show alternate, more meaningful busy/free numbers by counting
         * buffer cache as free memory (make it "-/+ buffers/cache"
         * if/when we add support for "cached" column): */
        printf("-/+ buffers:      ");
        printf(FIELDS_2,
-               info.totalram - info.freeram - info.bufferram,
-               info.freeram + info.bufferram
+               SI_UNIT(info.totalram - info.freeram - info.bufferram),
+               SI_UNIT(info.freeram + info.bufferram)
        );
 #if BB_MMU
        printf("Swap:");
        printf(FIELDS_3,
-               info.totalswap,
-               info.totalswap - info.freeswap,
-               info.freeswap
+               SI_UNIT(info.totalswap),
+               SI_UNIT(info.totalswap - info.freeswap),
+               SI_UNIT(info.freeswap)
        );
 #endif
        return EXIT_SUCCESS;
-- 
1.7.1
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