On 19/04/08 at 16:57 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Lucas Nussbaum > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 19/04/08 at 15:43 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > > Package: coreutils > > > Version: 5.97-5.3 > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > > > /dev/sda3 152774976 98907340 46107040 69% / > > > > tmpfs 1037944 0 1037944 0% /lib/init/rw > > > > udev 10240 40 10200 1% /dev > > > > tmpfs 1037944 0 1037944 0% /dev/shm > > > > /dev/sda1 93307 29461 59029 34% /boot > > > > > > Could you use --human-readable by default? > > > > No, that would break many scripts that get the value from the third or > > fourth column and compare it to some constant, for example. > > What about doing it only if the output is a terminal?
Because no other command does that currently (you could argue for ls to do that as well, for example). + it would break the workflow where you test a command in a terminal, then add it to a shell script. Also, that's clearly not somewhere Debian should diverge from upstream, but maybe the upstream devs have another opinion? -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
