Subject: Re: du(1) with gigabyte option.
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Mattias Karlsson <keihan@sergei.cc>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/18/2003 17:53:00
We already have in current:

keihan@mozilla [~] du -h /storage/#SSP/
7.1G    /storage/#SSP/


// Mattias

gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 05:37:33PM +0100, Mattias Karlsson wrote:
> 
>>Just an idea :)
>>
>>If no screaming I'll commit it later tonight.
> 
> 
> What's the current argument against a -h alá GNU for du(1) and df(1)?
> 
> Even Solaris sports it these days...
> 
> Keeping the -k and -m flags (and plausibly a -g flag with this
> addition) is obviously attractive for awk | sort -n reasons, but
> some times you'd really like to not convert in your head, nor lose
> information where -{k,m,g} is just to big for some of your files
> but right for others.
> 

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