No matter, I think that Ian makes a good point. I use -h most of the time when I use many of the utilities, df most certainly.
whenever i use df i use df -h, i just solved it with an alias, why cant we just set some beautifier alias for login shells and leave non-login shells alone? even if df -h is much easier to read for us human beings, it isnt a good excuse to break compatibility when there are less intrusive and equally effective worksarounds imho
Why would we not want to make that the default? I understand that it could break backward compatibility, if people are parsing the output, but in some cases change in inevitable.
but is this really the case? i'd say this would be the case if there was a df that behaved like df -h by default and we started seeing lots of scripts in the wild that deppend on that output
I personally think it makes sense to present the user (a.k.a. a human) with human comprehendable data whenever possible. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
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