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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-07 14:30:35 +0000
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+Print the sizes in bytes rather than in a human-readable format.
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+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.