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

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/04/2012 10:55 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > Pádraig Brady wrote, On 12/04/2012 11:30 AM:
> > > Nothing yet. The plan is to make a numfmt command available with this interface:
> > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-02/msg00085.html
>
> Attached is a patch, with a proof-of-concept working 'numfmt'.
>
> Works: from=SI/IEC/AUTO, to=SI/IEC, from-units, to-units, suffix, round.
> Doesn't work: format, to=<NUMBER>,field=N .
>
> The code isn't clean and can be improved.
> Currently, either  every (non-option) command-line parameter is expected to be 
> a number, or every line on stdin is expected to start with a number.

Thanks a lot for working on this.
All I'll say at this stage is to take it
as far as you can as per the interface specified
at the above URL with a mind to reusing stuff from
lib/human.c if possible.

We'll review it then with a view to including it ASAP.

thanks,
Pádraig.