severity 28152 wishlist
tags 28152 wontfix
close 28152
stop
(triaging old bugs)
On 2017-08-21 5:21 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote:
On 08/21/2017 03:56 PM, Michael Weiss wrote:
Do you think it would be possible to add another variable that wouldn't
overwrite the default but use the "human_B" output
On 08/21/2017 03:56 PM, Michael Weiss wrote:
Do you think it would be possible to add another variable that wouldn't
overwrite the default but use the "human_B" output with -h or --si?
Probably not. We've been heading more in the opposite direction, in that
we'd rather not have environment
On Sat, 19 Aug, 2017 at 14:09:00 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I'm afraid the problems would be more than minor, as other programs parse
> the output (there's an option in GNU 'sort' to do that, for example).
You're right, I was way too optimistic about this. But still, it could
be way worse imho.
Michael Weiss wrote:
I can understand that changing such historic things might always cause
some minor problems
I'm afraid the problems would be more than minor, as other programs parse the
output (there's an option in GNU 'sort' to do that, for example). That being
said, I could be talked
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.
I don't want to flame about this but I'd love it if we could discuss
this objectively by considering
