On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:25:44PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > A regular itchy annoyance for years now: > > df shows bytes, df -h shows only one decimal place, so e.g. on a > 1.8TiB drive "1.6T" is the free space, but that resolution/ precision > is insufficient. Of course I can fire up bc, set scale=20 and do some > powers of 1024 division, but that's all very clunky. > > How hard would it be to add an option to bc, to choose the number of > decimal places to use in the output, or the number of digits of > precision to display? >
Have you looked at the -k and -B options? Also, di has the -d option which is more flexible and it also supports format strings. You should be able to make it produce output in exactly the way you need. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
