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Re: human-readable / block-size as a general utility?
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: human-readable / block-size as a general utility? |
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Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:52:50 +0100 |
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On 08/18/2011 03:13 PM, Aaron Davies wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 08/18/2011 04:41 AM, Aaron Davies wrote:
>>> is there a way to access the -h functionality of du/df/ls as a general
>>> utility?
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>>> i'd like to write a wrapper for a badly-behaved quota tool that only
>>> uses 1K blocks
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>> That might be quite useful.
>> Someone told me recently that `wc -h` would be
>> very useful to them, and I said something more
>> general would be even better.
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>> Perhaps a printf format spec?
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> yes, that's exactly what I was thinking of. how hard would that be to
> implement?
Fairly trivial.
With stuff like this, the interface
is the hardest and more important to define.
So let's not jump into it just yet.
cheers,
Pádraig.