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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. |