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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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[–] 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