bug#28152: Human readable units (-h/--human-readable vs --si) - Wrong prefix and missing unit

2017-08-21 Thread Michael Weiss
On Sat, 19 Aug, 2017 at 14:09:00 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > I'm afraid the problems would be more than minor, as other programs parse > the output (there's an option in GNU 'sort' to do that, for example). You're right, I was way too optimistic about this. But still, it could be way worse imho.

bug#28152: Human readable units (-h/--human-readable vs --si) - Wrong prefix and missing unit

2017-08-19 Thread Michael Weiss
Imho the units used in the output of df, du, ls, etc. with the -h/--human-readable option can be very misleading/ambiguous and in the case of -h/--human-readable even wrong according to standards. I don't want to flame about this but I'd love it if we could discuss this objectively by considering