Convert big numbers to human-readable.
As a data engineer, I encounter a lot of big numbers in the course of my work. I got tired of squinting and counting digits to tell if something was in the billions or trillions, so I wrote this to replace the numbers inline.
go install github.com/bgreenlee/humanize@latest
If you don't have Go installed, do that first.
The humanize binary will be installed in $GOPATH/bin, which is likely ~/go/bin, so make sure that's in your PATH.
Usage of humanize:
-binary
use base-2 divisors instead of base-10
-min float
minimum absolute value to humanize (default 1000)
-preserve
preserve formatting when replacing
-version
print version and exit
$ echo "Woah, check out this big number: 123456789012345" | humanize
Woah, check out this big number: 123T
$ echo "Woah, check out this big number: 123456789012345" | humanize -binary
Woah, check out this big number: 112Ti
