On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:36:53 +0000 Grumpy <gru...@grumble-bubble.org> wrote: [...] > > I'm unsure if we want to throw this into the wild, since this > > output behaviour is _old_. > > That's the point, exactly. People (well, scripts written by people) > depend on the dd report output format. > > > Now, a -h button or similar would solve that, but thats fugly. > > Given dd is non-unixy in its commandline syntax, this would rather > be a ``conv='' suboption. Or its own ``summary=human-readable'' > option. Definitely not a dash-prefixed option. >
Any interest in having something like summary=human-readable then? I got what I wanted and I'm fine running a patched version on my system, but if there is general interest in getting a human- readable summary as an option, I might give it a shot.
