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

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> %I+%i records in\n
>> %O+%o records out\n
>> %b bytes transferred in %s secs (%p %u/sec)\n
> Any example I could get inspiration from, so as to keep things
> consistent?

Besides printf(3) (and (1)) and strftime(3) (and date(1)), the only
example of this kind of flexibility that comes to mind offhand is
hexdump(1), and it's a sufficiently different domain I'm not sure
you'll get much from it that you don't already have from Christos's
example quoted above.

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