Why is the human option (-h) not default?
Why is the human option (-h) not default?
I frequently find myself needing to rerun commands with the -h flag, and I was just wondering why it is not the default behavior of programs to show sizes in human-readable terms?
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I guess because most of the time the data is consumed by another script. I don’t know how OpenBSD behaves, but I would be pretty angry if I had to put such flags (like "-not-human") everywhere in my code, docker scripts, and pipelines.
I have the totally opposite opinion, since script writing is where I have a proper text editor with templates and snippets and other helpful tools. Its interactive commands at the terminal that I want to behave as much "human" as possible so I don't have to type so much
Thanks for the explanation.