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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[-] Tubbles@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months 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

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