numfmt

Convert numbers to and from human-readable strings.

• Convert 1.5K (SI Units) to 1500:

numfmt --from={si} {1.5K}

• Convert 5th field (1-indexed) to IEC Units without converting header:

ls -l | numfmt --header={1} --field={5} --to={iec}

• Convert to IEC units, pad with 5 characters, left aligned:

du -s * | numfmt --to={iec} --format="{%-5f}"

Copyright © 2014—present the tldr-pages team and contributors.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY).