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Why is the human option (-h) not default? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 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.

[–] Tubbles 4 points 1 year ago

I have the totally opposite opinion, since script writing is where I have a proper text editor with templates and snippets and other helpful tools. Its interactive commands at the terminal that I want to behave as much "human" as possible so I don't have to type so much

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the explanation.