GNU bug report logs - #7176
Feature request: add option to display full units in -h and --si output

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Mihai Capotă <mihai <at> mihaic.ro>

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 16:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch, wontfix

Merged with 14113

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 7176 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mihai Capotă <mihai <at> mihaic.ro>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>
Cc: 7176 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] human: add unambiguous block_size_args
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:12:54 +0200

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com> 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
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