I don't agree as this is the normal behaviour of most commands;
ls -St
ls -tS
ls -l1
ls -1l
ntpd -sS
ntpd -Ss
etc, etc.
/Alexander
Daniel Dickman wrote:
> I found it a little confusing that the order of the options for df
> can make a difference in the output. For example:
>
> [/usr/src/bin/df] df -hk .
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/sd0a 472403466 316700726 132082568 71% /
>
> [/usr/src/bin/df] df -kh .
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/sd0a 451G 302G 126G 71% /
>
> With the patch below you get the same result in both cases.
>
> [/usr/src/bin/df] df -hk .
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/sd0a 451G 302G 126G 71% /
>
> [/usr/src/bin/df] df -kh .
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/sd0a 451G 302G 126G 71% /
>
>
> Index: df.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/df/df.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.49
> diff -u -r1.49 df.c
> --- df.c 16 Mar 2008 20:04:35 -0000 1.49
> +++ df.c 14 May 2009 03:53:31 -0000
> @@ -98,14 +98,12 @@
> switch (ch) {
> case 'h':
> hflag = 1;
> - kflag = 0;
> break;
> case 'i':
> iflag = 1;
> break;
> case 'k':
> kflag = 1;
> - hflag = 0;
> break;
> case 'l':
> lflag = 1;
> @@ -130,6 +128,10 @@
> if ((iflag || hflag) && Pflag) {
> warnx("-h and -i are incompatible with -P");
> usage();
> + }
> +
> + if (hflag && kflag) {
> + kflag = 0;
> }
>
> mntsize = getmntinfo(&mntbuf, MNT_NOWAIT);
