I frequently find myself needing to rerun commands with the -h flag, and I was just wondering why it is not the default behavior of programs to show sizes in human-readable terms?

  • glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I guess because most of the time the data is consumed by another script. I don’t know how OpenBSD behaves, but I would be pretty angry if I had to put such flags (like “-not-human”) everywhere in my code, docker scripts, and pipelines.