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Date:      Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:50:00 +0200
From:      Johan van Selst <johans@stack.nl>
To:        Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>
Cc:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: small usr.bin/find patch
Message-ID:  <20090624095000.GA85397@mud.stack.nl>
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Alexander Best wrote:
> hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to indicate
> kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever standard
> telling app developers what to use?

It might be appropriate to use expand_number() here. This is what some
other tools do as well and consistency between tools is "a nice thing".


Ciao,
Johan

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