Manuel L?pez-Ib??ez wrote...
> I vote for this feature. In du and df commands, this is invoked with:
> -h, --human-readable
> print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)
>
> --si likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024
>
> Currently, in rsync, -h is the short form of --help.
Please do not, I repeat, do not three terrible things the gnu folks did
for ls, df etc:
1. Continue the prefix confusion which is using k, M, ... for 1024,
1024*1024 etc. Their meaning is defined to 1000, 1000*1000 ...
If you really want to use the 2^(10*n) quantities, use the
not-so-new-anymore non-ambiguous prefixes ki, Mi, Gi.
2. Show a bias against the SI system by dropping the short-hand notation
-H (now --si) for it while not touching the confusing -h (which
counts in powers of two).
3. Re-use parameter names. "du -H" greats me with
| du: WARNING: use --si, not -H; the meaning of the -H option will soon
| change to be the same as that of --dereference-args (-D)
Christoph
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