Format Bytes (IEC)

Format bytes using IEC units (KiB, MiB, GiB) based on powers of 1024.

Code

Utilities

units=(B KiB MiB GiB TiB)
size=$bytes
i=0
while [[ $(echo "$size >= 1024" | bc) -eq 1 ]] && [[ $i -lt 4 ]]; do
    size=$(echo "scale=2; $size / 1024" | bc)
    ((i++))
done
printf "%.2f %s\n" "$size" "${units[$i]}"

Parameters

bytes(number)

Size in bytes.

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