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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#50940: how df utility displays sizes - GB vs GiB |
Date: | Fri, 1 Oct 2021 14:01:14 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 |
On 10/1/21 1:30 PM, Danie de Jager wrote:
Can we use the same options, but to trigger the longer annotation, we double the characters used to -hh and -HH?
Interesting idea. Normally, later options override earlier, so 'df -h -H' is equivalent to 'df -H'. This is so that one can alias 'df' to 'df -h' and then type plain 'df' to get the same behavior as 'df -h', while being able to type 'df -H' to get the other behavior. With that in mind if we made the change you suggest, such an alias would mean that if you typed 'df' you would get the behavior of ordinary 'df -h' while if you typed 'df -h' you'd get the behavior of ordinary 'df -hh'. So there might be an opportunity for confusion there.
We could of course use a different option letter (unfortunately -B is already taken...).
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