On 23 May 2014 13:12, Pádraig Brady <P@draigbrady.com> wrote:

tl;dr

You can get what you want currently by doing:

du() { env du -B1 "$@" | numfmt --to=iec-i --suffix=B; }

Thanks very much, that's certainly good enough for me.

My understanding of the rest of what you wrote is that fixing the inconsistency in du's output is complicated by backwards compatibility, and because the code used to do so is used elsewhere in coreutils. Pity. It'd certainly be nice to see consistent output by default.

With -B '..B' output you mean?

Sorry, yes.

Thanks very much for your efforts.