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Why is the human option (-h) not default? (feddit.de)
submitted 11 months ago by AnonymousLemming@feddit.de to c/openbsd@lemmy.ml
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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?

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[–] glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] AnonymousLemming@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the explanation.