Re: humanize_number(3) for dd(1) summary?

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> 1073741824 bytes (1,0 GB) transferred in 15.701 secs (65 MB/sec)

SUSv3[1]:
``On completion, dd shall write the number of input and output blocks to 
standard error. In the POSIX locale the following formats shall be used:

"%u+%u records in\n", <number of whole input blocks>,
    <number of partial input blocks>''


 - Hubert

[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/toc.htm