GNU bug report logs - #47103
numfmt: invalid suffix 'k'

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Daniel Callejas Sevilla <daniel.callejas.sevilla <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 47103-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Sven Köhler <sven.koehler <at> gmail.com>,
 47103-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47103: numfmt: invalid suffix 'k'
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 16:59:36 +0000

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On 26/11/2023 16:09, Sven Köhler wrote:
> So Pádraig's patch does allow for parsing lowercase k, but it does not
> change numfmt to use lowercase k in its output in si mode.
> 
> As Pádraig has shown, ls uses lowercase k in --si mode. So it uses
> lowercase k for 1000. I think that numfmt should behave the same for
> consistency reasons.

It does output lowercase 'k' in SI mode.

Attached is the full patch.

Marking this as done.

Will push this tomorrow.

thanks,
Pádraig
[numfmt-k.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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