The original looked like a plate of spaghetti to me. Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man-common/in-bytes.adoc | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/man-common/in-bytes.adoc b/man-common/in-bytes.adoc index 3a69c6e40..0c4a4d651 100644 --- a/man-common/in-bytes.adoc +++ b/man-common/in-bytes.adoc @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@ -Print the sizes in bytes rather than in a human-readable format. +Print sizes in bytes rather than in human-readable form. + -By default, the unit, sizes are expressed in, is byte, and unit prefixes are in -power of 2^10 (1024). Abbreviations of symbols are exhibited truncated in order -to reach a better readability, by exhibiting alone the first letter of them; -examples: "1 KiB" and "1 MiB" are respectively exhibited as "1 K" and "1 M", -then omitting on purpose the mention "iB", which is part of these abbreviations. +By default, sizes are shown in units that are powers of 1024 bytes. +The formal abbreviations for these units (KiB, MiB, GiB, ...) are +further shortened to just their first letter: K, M, G, .... -- 2.48.1
