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

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost>]

On 04.12.2010 05:46, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Dec 4,  2:14am, jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost (Jean-Yves Migeon) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: humanize_number(3) for dd(1) summary?
> 
> | "conv" is for controlling conversion done by dd(1) between stdin and
> | stdout no? Is it really clean to use it for controlling stderr output?
> | 
> | I can mimic what ls(1), df(1), du(1), ... do and add a "-h" flag to have
> | a "human readable" summary.
> 
> perhaps something else then like msgfmt="...". I don't think that dd is
> supposed to parse getopt like options.

Hmm, like it. Something along the line of:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo msgfmt=quiet
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo msgfmt=human
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1,0 GB) transferred in 15.701 secs (65 MB/sec)

?

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Jean-Yves Migeon
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