On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:18:25AM +0200, Thomas Michael Wanka wrote:
> On 9 Apr 2002 at 17:04, Simon Burge wrote:
> > Zach Hartley wrote:
> > > I know this is a stupid question, but my teacher showed me a -h flag
> > > that could be passed to ls on our school lab computers running
> > > redhat linux and was wondering how I might do something similar
> > > under netbsd.
> > 
> > What exactly does the -h flag do on redhat linux?  It might be
> > difficult suggesting alternatives if we don't know what you're trying
> > to do :-)
> 
> "h" should be for "human readable" to display kb or mb values. 
> Compareable to the "k" flag.

-h also works in df and du.
It also appears in IRIX. 

IMHO it's a very nice feature when you start dealing with bigger chunks
of data. Makes it easier to realize exactly what the size is without
starting to count digits.
Entirely unneccessary ofcourse.