[TUHS] Command line options and complexity

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday, 12 March 2020 at 17:48:07 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2020-Mar-11 20:53:12 -0400, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co> wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>> a better choice in removing options would be to remove -h and use a
>>> filter to mutilate the sizes:
>>>
>>>  $ ls -l | humanize
>
> How does humanize decide which column to work on?

It knows.  It was written that way.

> If it only works on "ls -l", then it's not useful if I want other
> columns as well.

Right.  You'd have to change it.  Recall that this was just an
example.

> Maybe it could just humanize any large number it found, but you
> probably don't want to "humanize" the inode number or filename.

Yes, this is exactly the scenario I described in an earlier mail
message, where I called it

  $ ls -l | commafy 5

Greg
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