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Re: human-readable / block-size as a general utility?
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Aaron Davies |
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Re: human-readable / block-size as a general utility? |
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Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:13:38 -0400 |
On Aug 18, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 08/18/2011 04:41 AM, Aaron Davies wrote:
>> is there a way to access the -h functionality of du/df/ls as a general
>> utility?
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>> i'd like to write a wrapper for a badly-behaved quota tool that only
>> uses 1K blocks
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> That might be quite useful.
> Someone told me recently that `wc -h` would be
> very useful to them, and I said something more
> general would be even better.
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> Perhaps a printf format spec?
yes, that's exactly what I was thinking of. how hard would that be to implement?