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1.6 KiB
Groff
58 lines
1.6 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 2024 Emma Tebibyte <emma@tebibyte.media>
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.\"
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.\" This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. To see a copy of this license,
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.\" visit <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/>.
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.TH rpn 1
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.SH NAME
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hru \(en human readable units
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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hru
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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Hru reads byte counts in the form of whole numbers from the standard input and
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writes to the standard output the same number converted one of the units of data
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defined by the International System of Units.
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The program will convert the byte count to the highest unit possible where the
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value is greater than one.
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.SH DIAGNOSTICS
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If encountering non-integer characters in the standard input, hru will exit with
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the appropriate error code as defined by sysexits.h(3) and print an error
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message.
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.SH RATIONALE
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The GNU project’s ls(1) implementation contains a human-readable option (-h)
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that, when specified, makes the tool print size information in a format more
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immediately readable. This functionality is useful not only in the context of
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ls(1) so the decision was made to split it into a new tool. The original
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functionality in GNU’s ls(1) can be emulated with fop(1) combined with this
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program.
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.SH STANDARDS
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Hru follows the standard unit prefixes as specified by the Bureau International
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des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) in the ninth edition of The International System of
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Units (SI).
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.SH AUTHOR
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Written by Emma Tebibyte <emma@tebibyte.media>.
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.SH COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (c) 2024 Emma Tebibyte. License AGPLv3+: GNU AGPL version 3 or later
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<https://gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html>.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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GNU ls(1), The International System of Units (SI) 9th Edition
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