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

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/07/2012 08:25 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 12/07/2012 12:59 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > So on to some initial observations...
>
> Hi Assaf and Padraig,
>
> numfmt claims itself (in --help):
>    Reformats NUMBER(s) to/from human-readable values.

Yes I was going to get to descriptions and docs at the end.
But for above I'd probably s| to/from human-readable values||

> and in the first line in numfmt.c:
>    Reformat numbers like 11505426432 to the more human-readable 11G
>
> Therefore this is my first test:
>
>    $ echo 11505426432 | src/numfmt
>    11505426432
>
> Hmm, shouldn't it converting that to a human-readable
> number then? ;-)

Heh, given my amendment above no :)
I suppose you could think of numfmt as
a number validator in default mode?
It should probably also convert from 1,234 to 1234 also.

> Looking at scale_from_args: I'd favor lower-case arguments,
> i.e. "si" and "iec" instead of "SI" and "IEC".
> WDYT?

Yes, that's probably a bit easier on the eyes/fingers

thanks,
Pádraig.