From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Woods Subject: Re: human readable format? Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:32:33 -0600 Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.0.20050826231813.04377b30@no.incoming.mail> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: _z33 Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org At 8/27/2005 10:39 +0530, _z33 wrote: >When using commands like 'ls', 'du' & 'df', I fnd special switches >to the commands that convert the usage details reported by these >programs into human readable format. I am still not able to >understand why these switches aren't enabled by default? "backward compatibility" These commands are all used by scripts and other sorts of programs to provide information that's then parsed by the program. If you change the default behavior you break all those programs. -- Jeff Woods - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs