Subject: bug#7176: [PATCH] human: add unambiguous block_size_args

From: Mihai Capotă <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:12:54 +0200

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]> wrote:
> So I was 50:50 on making this change, and in the meantime numfmt(1) was released,
> which gives full control over number formatting, albeit in a more verbose/explicit form.

Let me see if I can convince you with a use case. If you set
"BLOCK_SIZE=binary" in your shell configuration file, you get the
output you want from all programs that use gnulib. That's not only
about verbosity, it's something that cannot be easily done with
numfmt.

Mihai