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humanfriendly

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS

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NAME

humanfriendly - human friendly input/output formatter

SYNOPSIS

humanfriendly [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

humanfriendly is a program that performs human friendly input/output (text formatting) on the command line.

OPTIONS

This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (‘-’). A summary of options is included below.
-h, --help

Show this message and exit.

-c COMMAND , --run-command COMMAND

Execute an external COMMAND (given as the positional arguments) and render a spinner and timer while the command is running. The exit status of the command is propagated.

--format-table

Read tabular data from standard input (each line is a row and each whitespace separated field is a column), format the data as a table and print the resulting table to standard output. See also the --delimiter option.

-d VALUE , --delimiter= VALUE

Change the delimiter used by --format-table to VALUE (a string). By default all whitespace is treated as a delimiter.

-l LENGTH , --format-length= LENGTH

Convert a length count (given as the integer or float LENGTH ) into a human readable string and print that string to standard output.

-n VALUE , --format-number= VALUE

Format a number (given as the integer or floating point number VALUE ) with thousands separators and two decimal places (if needed) and print the formatted number to standard output.

-s BYTES , --format-size= BYTES

Convert a byte count (given as the integer BYTES ) into a human readable string and print that string to standard output.

-t SECONDS , --format-timespan= SECONDS

Convert a number of seconds (given as the floating point number SECONDS ) into a human readable timespan and print that string to standard output.

--parse-size= VALUE

Parse a human readable data size (given as the string VALUE ) and print the number of bytes to standard output.

--parse-length= VALUE

Parse a human readable data length (given as the string VALUE ) and print the number of bytes to standard output.

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