I noticed that the documentation for SI units supported by
--human-readable leads to a page saying "Sorry, this link is no longer
active!" [1].
It appears the SI Brochure is no longer distributed as an html for easy
linking, only PDFs [2].
This patch uses a separate location on BIPM's site with them listed
[3]. But maybe it is just better to use an Internet Archive link instead
to avoid link rot in the future [4][5].
Thoughts?
Collin
[1] https://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/chapter3.html
[2] https://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/
[3] https://www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units/si-prefixes
[4]
https://web.archive.org/web/20190325185816/http://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/chapter3.html
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot
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Message-ID: <a8645e387147823e82bb08827f2dc75068134825.1751688627.git.collin.fu...@gmail.com>
From: Collin Funk <collin.fu...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 21:07:23 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix a dead link
* doc/coreutils.texi (Block Size): Use an updated link to SI prefixes.
---
doc/coreutils.texi | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 6e1aaef7a..89a0b5972 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ @node Block size
of bytes per block, or it can be @code{human-readable} or @code{si} to
select a human-readable format. Integers may be followed by suffixes
that are upward compatible with the
-@uref{http://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/chapter3.html,
+@uref{https://www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units/si-prefixes,
SI prefixes}
for decimal multiples and with the
@uref{https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html, ISO/IEC 80000-13
--
2.50.0
