The procps-ng has free which does have human readable option,
$ free -h
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2.0G 1.1G 895M 0B 133M 580M
-/+ buffers/cache: 387M 1.6G
Swap: 517M 0B 517MCommit which introduced the option is below. https://gitorious.org/procps/procps/commit/d13fbc34a7a198fb507f04e823ea80f8866b6131 -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

