Re: Command-line program to convert 'human' sizes?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/04/2012 04:25 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a command-line program (or a recommended way) to expose the coreutil's 
> common functionality of converting raw sizes to 'human' sizes and vice versa ?
>
> I'm referring to the "-h" parameter that du/df/sort are accepting, and reporting "human" sizes, but 
> also the reverse (where sort's "-G" accepts "40M" as valid input).
>
> I found two relevant threads, but no resolution:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-08/msg00035.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-02/msg00088.html

Nothing yet. The plan is to make a numfmt command available with this interface:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-02/msg00085.html

cheers,
Pádraig.