Re: Should "df --portability" allow thousands separators?

[Paul Eggert]

"Peter D." <address@hidden> writes:

> I have an environment variable set that triggers thousands separators.  It 
> can be overridden with an extra command line option, but I suspect that 
> a "-P" should be sufficient. 

Can you please be more specific?  Which environment variable is that?
What does the output look like, when you set that variable?  Also,
what locale are you using (what is the output of the 'locale'
command)?

It could well be that 'df' is conforming to POSIX, but nonetheless
could be improved.