Subject: Re: bug#28152: Human readable units (-h/--human-readable vs --si) - Wrong prefix and missing unit

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:08:53 -0600

severity 28152 wishlist
tags 28152 wontfix
close 28152
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 2017-08-21 5:21 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 08/21/2017 03:56 PM, Michael Weiss wrote:
>> Do you think it would be possible to add another variable that wouldn't
>> overwrite the default but use the "human_B" output with -h or --si?
> 
> Probably not. We've been heading more in the opposite direction, in that 
> we'd rather not have environment variables affect the behavior of 
> standard utilities, due to the possibility of confusion and even attacks 
> on unwary users. For interactive use you can define your own du command 
> or alias that behaves the way you prefer.

On 2017-08-21 5:58 p.m., Assaf Gordon wrote:
> You've mentioned numfmt(1), it's worth noting that your request is
> exactly what numfmt was designed to do.
With no further comments, I'm closing this bug.
Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.

-assaf