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?
>
> i'd like to write a wrapper for a badly-behaved quota tool that only
> uses 1K blocks
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.
Perhaps a printf format spec?
%h is available, but it's probably best
go with something a bit more future proof.
Perhaps %{human} ?
cheers,
Pádraig.
