On Aug 18, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote:
> 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? yes, that's exactly what I was thinking of. how hard would that be to implement?
