Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > 2009/6/1 Nils Kassube <[email protected]>: > >> Christopher Chan wrote: >> >>> Heh. Good luck changing du, ls, df, yada yada to anything other than >>> base2 upstream. >>> >> From "man du": >> >> | --si >> | like -h, but use powers of 1000 not 1024 >> >> > > Yeah but it uses incorrect prefix =( > > -h, --human-readable > print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G) > > --si like -h, but use powers of 1000 not 1024 > > So the -h should use Ki Mi and Gi (am I getting this right?). And > somehow their classification is funny to me: > > 1) powers of 2 - human-readabe > 2) powers of 10 - si, i.e. scientific crowds > > I believe powers of 2 is computer jibrish and SI units the only true > human units you should be using (or maybe it's just me with all my > math and physics....) > > Anyways before I was using -H and now it is going to be depreciated > soon and the warning redirects to use --si. I was pretty sure in the > past they called -H human readable???? or am I wrong???? > >
-h has always been human readable. I have never used -H nor notice it until now... (human readable = not in kilobytes^Wkibibytes or astronomical number) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
