On 08/18/2011 03:13 PM, Aaron Davies wrote: > On Aug 18, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: > >> On 08/18/2011 04:41 AM, Aaron Davies wrote: >>> is there a way to access the -h functionality of du/df/ls as a general >>> utility? >>> >>> i'd like to write a wrapper for a badly-behaved quota tool that only >>> uses 1K blocks >> >> That might be quite useful. >> Someone told me recently that `wc -h` would be >> very useful to them, and I said something more >> general would be even better. >> >> Perhaps a printf format spec? > > yes, that's exactly what I was thinking of. how hard would that be to > implement?
Fairly trivial. With stuff like this, the interface is the hardest and more important to define. So let's not jump into it just yet. cheers, Pádraig.
