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> > Hmm, that's not too bad at all really
> I do agree, it looks like a very interesting idea indeed. However, I
> have two questions:
> 1. Why skip=2b => 1024 blocks ?
> 2. Do you know if there is a utility function somewhere in coreutils or
> gnulib which could help me to parse this ? If such a function exists it
> could be able to manage more units (bytes, kbytes, megabytes, ...). If
> have to write such a function we have to discuss the possibilities I have
to
> provide.
About #2, I was thinking that we could be consistent with the truncate
--size
option for example. Adding the missing B for bytes.
truncate --size option documentation extract:
‘KB’ => 1000 (KiloBytes)
‘K’ => 1024 (KibiBytes)
‘MB’ => 1000*1000 (MegaBytes)
‘M’ => 1024*1024 (MebiBytes)
‘GB’ => 1000*1000*1000 (GigaBytes)
‘G’ => 1024*1024*1024 (GibiBytes)
and so on for ‘T’, ‘P’, ‘E’, ‘Z’, and ‘Y’.
Cheers,
Jérémy
