[PLUG] numfmt [Was] Re: Copying files to multiple volumes

On Oct 29, 2020, at 12:19 [Was, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 12:09 PM Walt Mankowski via plug

<plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

Adding to the confusing is that `df -h` and `du -h` just show the
first letter, and can use either 1000 or 1024 depending on which
parameters you use.

Oh, that's totally ok because all you need to do is pipe the broken
output into something else to fix it...

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2017-08/msg00047.html

Thanks, Rich. numfmt is a nifty utility that's new to me. Although it sounds

a little bit like KennySpeak [1]

Unless it's clear from context, I'm sometimes uncertain as to whether the

units are bits or bytes. But what's a factor of 8 in big-O calculations, or

budgets. It's often better to provision 8 times the storage or bandwidth

resources. See also man-month...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200916015825/http://www.namesuppressed.com/kenny/

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