bug#17553: du unit suggestion

[Reuben Thomas]

On Fri, 23 May 2014 at 15:02, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:

> On 23 May 2014 13:12, Pádraig Brady <P@draigbrady.com> wrote:
>
>> tl;dr
>>
>>   You can get what you want currently by doing:
>>
>>     du() { env du -B1 "$@" | numfmt --to=iec-i --suffix=B; }
>>
>
> Thanks very much, that's certainly good enough for me.
>

Today I found that this doesn't cope with filenames that contain newlines,
but it's easy to fix:

du() { env du "$@" --block-size=1 --null | numfmt --zero-terminated
--from=auto --to=iec-i --suffix=B | tr '\0' '\n'; }

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