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author | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2011-05-10 17:05:38 +0100 |
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committer | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2011-05-10 17:05:38 +0100 |
commit | 32d31cd47b27215dd2fdb8272b0adb0b3b2f3892 (patch) | |
tree | 893504ec45e25b45707a2d8440d7032d075e5804 /humanify.1 | |
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diff --git a/humanify.1 b/humanify.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dcb80fb --- /dev/null +++ b/humanify.1 @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +.\" Copyright 2011 Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> +.\" +.\" This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify +.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +.\" the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +.\" (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +.\" along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. +.\" +.TH HUMANIFY 1 +.SH NAME +humanify \- format bit- and byte-sizes into human-readable form +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B humanify +.RB [ \-\-binary ] +.RI [ size ...] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B humanify +formats in human-readable form data sizes (number of bits or bytes). +For example, +it can turn +.I 1234 +into +.I "1 kB" +or +.IR "1 KiB" . +Sizes are given on the command line, +or one-per line in the standard input. +Sizes are rounded to the nearest integer. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.BR \-\-binary +Use 2-based prefixes (from IEC), +rather than 10-based ones (from ISO). +In other words, "kibibyte" instead of "kilobyte". +.TP +.BR \-\-bits +Inputs give number of bits, instead of bytes. |