>> >>> In the output of commands such as 'list jobs', is it possible to >> >>> configure >> >>> bacula to display numeric quantities as digits alone (no commas)? I >> >>> really >> >>> find this difficult to read. >> >> >> >> I don't think it is possible, except by editing the code. I find it >> >> annoying >> >> too, especially for jobids, because it prevents easy copy/paste to >> >> other >> >> bconsole commands and searching in logs. >> > >> > I'd want to see it fixed in jobids, but not other places. It makes >> > totals actually MORE readable (though I realize internationally, that >> > might be subjective). >> >> This may well depend a lot on the individual. Certainly the JobId field >> needs to be displayed without commas in all situations; it is too hard to >> cut and past and too easy to make a mistake otherwise. For other fields, >> such as JobBytes, I find something like "52,610,802,628" harder to read, >> and would prefer it without commas. But I would really prefer that to be >> "52.610 GB" or (better) "48.997 GiB". > > Yes, that's another possibility, though access to the complete number > without > commas would be useful too (e.g. for pasting into your favourite > calculator > application). > > >> > I suspect it is a very easy change to make though, if one would want >> > to. >> > I'm not sure how the tables are generated in bconsole. >> >> It looks like a dump of what is returned from the database server, >> without any interpretation by bconsole. > > No, they are added by the function add_commas I think (plus other inline > code > that knows about the extra space required to make the columns wide > enough). > If there really is some function formatting the output of database queries, I would prefer changing time values to "human-readable" before starting playing with the commas (though personally I don't like the commas either, and I'm surprised they exist in Europe-born software). What I mean with human-readable, is eg. volume retention periods etc. stuff that may vary from minutes to years but are always shown in seconds with up to 8-9 digits instead of more familiar not-base-10 units like hours and days.
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