GNU bug report logs - #28152
Human readable units (-h/--human-readable vs --si) - Wrong prefix and missing unit

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Message #8 received at 28152 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Michael Weiss <dev.primeos <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 28152 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Mihai Capotă <mihai <at> mihaic.ro>
Subject: Re: bug#28152: Human readable units (-h/--human-readable vs --si) -
 Wrong prefix and missing unit
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 14:09:00 -0700

Michael Weiss wrote:

> I can understand that changing such historic things might always cause
> some minor problems

I'm afraid the problems would be more than minor, as other programs parse the 
output (there's an option in GNU 'sort' to do that, for example). That being 
said, I could be talked into a patch like the one that Mihai Capotă suggested in:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7176#11

as this would be upward-compatible. It would need documentation though.

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