On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:33:49AM -0700, Todd C. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:05:41 +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 11:59:33AM -0500, David Goerger wrote: > > > This diff teaches du(1) the -m flag, report disk usage in megabytes. > > > This brings us in line with implementations in the other BSDs, Linux, > > > and Illumos. > > > > Why is it needed? -k is required by POSIX, adding arguments for > > megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes etc seems silly when > > there is already 512 byte blocks, kilobytes and -h output. > > It is useful in conjunction with sort. For example, I often do: > > du -sk * | sort -rn | head > > to see the largest disk users.
Me, too. Given its wide spread adoption I think we should implement it. OK florian@ > > However, output in kilobytes is less useful than it used to be due > to larger files now being common. Using the BLOCKSIZE env var is > more flexible but is cumbersome to use and not portable. > > - todd > -- I'm not entirely sure you are real.
