BSCALC(1)

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version 2.12 Β· 3 versions
, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixpkgs unstable

✨ NAME ✨

bscalc β€” bestie, this is the manual page for bscalc 2.12 πŸ’–


πŸŽ€ DESCRIPTION πŸŽ€

okay so basically bscalc is your little unit-conversion calculator bestie and the way you talk to it is like this:

usage: bscalc [-h] [--version]
       [-u {B,KiB,MiB,GiB,TiB,PiB,EiB,KB,MB,GB,TB,PB,EB}] [-b] [-k] [-m]
       [-g] [-t] [-p] [-e] [--KB] [--MB] [--GB] [--TB] [--PB] [--EB]
       [-H] EXPRESSION_PART [EXPRESSION_PART ...]

like, that's the whole vibe. give it an expression, tell it what unit you want, and it ate πŸ’…


🌸 positional arguments 🌸

  • EXPRESSION_PART β€” the actual math-y bit you want it to crunch, no cap. and yes bestie, you can hand it more than one of these, it's literally in the usage line πŸ‘‘

πŸ’œ options πŸ’œ

  • -h, --help β€” shows you this help message and then dips. exit, gone, bye ✨
  • --version β€” shows you the program's version number and then dips. also exit, also bye πŸ¦‹
  • -u {B,KiB,MiB,GiB,TiB,PiB,EiB,KB,MB,GB,TB,PB,EB}, --unit {B,KiB,MiB,GiB,TiB,PiB,EiB,KB,MB,GB,TB,PB,EB} β€” pick the unit you want the result shown in πŸŽ€
  • -b, -B β€” show the result in bytes. tiny. baby. iconic πŸ“
  • -k, -K, --KiB β€” show the result in KiB ✨
  • -m, -M, --MiB β€” show the result in MiB πŸ’–
  • -g, -G, --GiB β€” show the result in GiB 🌸
  • -t, -T, --TiB β€” show the result in TiB πŸ¦‹
  • -p, -P, --PiB β€” show the result in PiB πŸ’œ
  • -e, -E, --EiB β€” show the result in EiB 🌈
  • --KB β€” show the result in KB ⭐
  • --MB β€” show the result in MB πŸŽ€
  • --GB β€” show the result in GB πŸ‘‘
  • --TB β€” show the result in TB πŸ’…
  • --PB β€” show the result in PB πŸ”₯
  • --EB β€” show the result in EB 😭
  • -H, --human-readable β€” shows you only the single 'best' result. one answer, main character energy, no extra noise 🫢

report issues at https://github.com/storaged-project/libbytesize/issues β€” fr fr, if something's busted, tell the devs, they wanna know πŸ™ˆ

and that's the whole page bestie, you're so welcome πŸ’–

bscalc 2.12 β€” December 2025 β€” that's the version, that's the date, mwah, periodt πŸ’…βœ¨

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