Re: parted "print" output formatting

[Jim Meyering]

Dax Kelson <address@hidden> wrote:
...
>> Please consider reverting the "human friendly" print output change, or
>> support a option to print (say, -m) that prints only megabyte values
>> (ala, the historical output style of 'print').
>
> Thinking about this more, changing format and requiring a backwards
> compat flag that'll just produce errors in old versions is a bad change.
>
> I would suggest reverting the change in output, and instead add a "-h"
> option to print the human friendly output.

Does using the "unit MB" option give the output you want?

    $ parted -s /dev/sdd unit MB print
    Model: Generic USB SD Reader (scsi)
    Disk /dev/sdd: 999MB
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
    Partition Table: msdos

    Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
     1      0.00MB  40.0MB  40.0MB  primary  fat32        lba