On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:38:42-0400 "STeve Andre'" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/02/11 14:25, Thomas Pfaff wrote: > > Simple patch to allow uppercase size modifiers (K, M, and G). Is there > > a reason why not to? Plus, as a bonus you're less likely to mess up if > > you've been naughty and used dd on Linux. > > What other commands allow case insensitive options? I don't > see it as desirable to emulate Linuxisms unless there is a good > reason, myself. > Well, the point is not to emulate Linux (because then we'd have to change the behavior of the lowercase suffixes among other things) but to be able to use the same suffixes that tools with human-readable output displays, like "df -h", "du -h", or "ls -hl". The fdisk and disklabel editors are case-insensitive.
