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 with -h or --si?
Probably not. We've been heading more in the opposite direction, in that
we'd rather not have environment variables affect the behavior of
standard utilities, due to the possibility of confusion and even attacks
on unwary users. For interactive use you can define your own du command
or alias that behaves the way you prefer.
On 2017-08-21 5:58 p.m., Assaf Gordon wrote:
You've mentioned numfmt(1), it's worth noting that your request is
exactly what numfmt was designed to do.
With no further comments, I'm closing this bug.
Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.
-assaf
