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by jzwinck 4254 days ago
You're right, myriad popular tools are not totally consistent (ls -h and du -h are similar but grep -h is very different). There is a bit of hope however--the GNU folks have documented lots of the options currently in use so you can try to find one that fits when you build new tools: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Option-Table.ht...