GNU bug report logs - #58521
human readable still wrong output (after 20+ years?)

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: chandler <scar <at> riseup.net>

Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 58521-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: chandler <scar <at> riseup.net>
Cc: 58521-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58521: human readable still wrong output (after 20+ years?)
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 12:28:54 -0800

On 2022-10-14 09:24, chandler wrote:
> Please no excuses about how this will break other programs

Unfortunately backward-compatibility concerns are real, which means 
we're not likely to make a big change to -h's behavior at this point. 
You can use --si instead.

Assuming you're talking about 'df' and 'du', neither -h nor --si follows 
the SI standard, since they both output prefixes without units. So this 
is not a question of conforming to any standard.
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