Re: humanize_number(3) for dd(1) summary?

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Dec 4,  2:14am, jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost (Jean-Yves Migeon) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: humanize_number(3) for dd(1) summary?

| "conv" is for controlling conversion done by dd(1) between stdin and
| stdout no? Is it really clean to use it for controlling stderr output?
| 
| I can mimic what ls(1), df(1), du(1), ... do and add a "-h" flag to have
| a "human readable" summary.

perhaps something else then like msgfmt="...". I don't think that dd is
supposed to parse getopt like options.

christos