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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-14 19:10:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-14 19:10:49 +0000 |
| commit | cfe5e3905201349e9cf3f95d52ff4bd100bde37d (patch) | |
| tree | d0baf160cbee3195249d095f85e52d20c21acf02 /man-common/in-bytes.adoc | |
| parent | Initial commit. (diff) | |
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Adding upstream version 2.39.3.upstream/2.39.3
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man-common/in-bytes.adoc b/man-common/in-bytes.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3a69c6e --- /dev/null +++ b/man-common/in-bytes.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Print the sizes in bytes rather than in a human-readable format. ++ +By default, the unit, sizes are expressed in, is byte, and unit prefixes are in +power of 2^10 (1024). Abbreviations of symbols are exhibited truncated in order +to reach a better readability, by exhibiting alone the first letter of them; +examples: "1 KiB" and "1 MiB" are respectively exhibited as "1 K" and "1 M", +then omitting on purpose the mention "iB", which is part of these abbreviations. |