Thread: Elegant Bash / SH script to convert human <-> bytes values?

hello,

sh/dash, have elegant script can handle such things?

or under awk, portability. http://www.softpanorama.org/tools/awk.shtml awk underappreciated coding , portable , universal

code:

54.4m = 57042534 bytes

welcome,

enjoy !!

echo "83498543893452" | awk '{ sum=$1 ; hum[1024**3]="gb";hum[1024**2]="mb";hum[1024]="kb"; (x=1024**3; x>=1024; x/=1024){ if (sum>=x) { printf "%.2f %s\n",sum/x,hum[x];break } }}'

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