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.
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