Re: humanizing the control t function?

[Bob Eager <rde@tavi.co.uk>]

Yes, but that doesn't affect the Control-T function (perhaps it
should?).

Control-T ought, however, to show if there is ANY progress - difficult
if the numbers are humanized.

On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 13:42:59 +0000
Diego Veríssimo Lakatos <diegovlakatos@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, I think that you are looking for the "--humanize-numbers"
> 
> user@host:~$ sudo tarsnap --print-stats --humanize-numbers
>                                        Total size  Compressed size
> All archives                               295 GB           220 GB
>   (unique data)                            8.7 GB           6.4 GB
> 
> 
> 
> Em sáb, 4 de jun de 2016 às 19:52, Sarah Alawami <marrie12@gmail.com>
> escreveu:
> 
> > I forgot what signal that sends to tarsnap but is there a way to
> > humanize that set of numbers? I'm horrible with byte calculation. I
> > can approximate to a point but still. Is there a way to make those
> > numbers read a bit more friendly? With out giving the file name the
> > example would be. 4456448 / 11044528 bytes)
> >
> > Is there a way to make that look better let's say kb or even mb?
> > Depending on the number shown? I dunno if this would make
> > tarsnap consume more memory especially on slower machines or what
> > not. But just a thought.
> >
> > hope that helps a bit. Loving the program so far.
> >
> > Blessings and happy Saturday
> >