Re: Adding humanize_number to coreutiles?

2012-02-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: ... Looking more at this, you might be right. Now printf already has related formatting functionality: $ env LANG=fa_IR.utf8 printf %I'd\n 1234 ۱٬۲۳۴ I was thinking it would be appropriate to add human into the mix like $ env LANG=fa_IR.utf8 printf %Hd\n 1234 1K $

Re: Adding humanize_number to coreutiles?

2012-02-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: On 02/14/2012 12:59 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: ... Looking more at this, you might be right. Now printf already has related formatting functionality: $ env LANG=fa_IR.utf8 printf %I'd\n 1234 ۱٬۲۳۴ I was thinking it would be appropriate to add human

Re: Adding humanize_number to coreutiles?

2012-02-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 02/13/2012 03:45 AM, Peng Yu wrote: 2012/2/7 Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com: On 02/07/2012 03:36 AM, Peng Yu wrote: Hi, Several commands in coreutils have the -h option. I'm wondering whether anybody in the develop team also thinks that it is worthwhile to export it as a standalone

Adding humanize_number to coreutiles?

2012-02-06 Thread Peng Yu
Hi, Several commands in coreutils have the -h option. I'm wondering whether anybody in the develop team also thinks that it is worthwhile to export it as a standalone command. If so, I'd recommend add such convenient command in coreutiles. As I don't find it anywhere else as a stand alone