diff options
| author | Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org> | 2012-04-25 22:27:19 -0400 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2012-06-25 23:39:12 -0500 |
| commit | b58489d29a1898a4bff1b5da6ca4bfb14003dbfe (patch) | |
| tree | 5c42f704cc671136ef43972cfdee1274e620e65f /scripts/library/README | |
| parent | e183522e3168c4a31103b3c7910fa8d29333fb5a (diff) | |
scripts/library: add human_to_size
This is a bash wrapper around an awk function that parses human readable
sizes and returns their representative values in bytes, as a string. A
small test harness is added to validate the functionality.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/library/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/library/README | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/library/README b/scripts/library/README index c71c0714..44748ee2 100644 --- a/scripts/library/README +++ b/scripts/library/README @@ -27,3 +27,11 @@ Reccommended Usage: Returns: 0: parse success 1: parse failure (error message supplied) + +human_to_size.sh: +A function to convert human readable sizes (such as "5.3 GiB") to raw byte +equivalents. base10 and base2 suffixes are supported, case sensitively. If +successful, the converted byte value is written to stdout and the function +returns 0. If an error occurs, nothing in written and the function returns 1. +Results may be inaccurate when using a broken implementation of awk, such +as mawk or busybox awk. |