Format byte size as kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, ...

These utility functions convert a size in bytes to a human-readable string in either SI (decimal) or IEC (binary) format.

func ByteCountSI(b int64) string {
	const unit = 1000
	if b < unit {
		return fmt.Sprintf("%d B", b)
	}
	div, exp := int64(unit), 0
	for n := b / unit; n >= unit; n /= unit {
		div *= unit
		exp++
	}
	return fmt.Sprintf("%.1f %cB",
		float64(b)/float64(div), "kMGTPE"[exp])
}

func ByteCountIEC(b int64) string {
	const unit = 1024
	if b < unit {
		return fmt.Sprintf("%d B", b)
	}
	div, exp := int64(unit), 0
	for n := b / unit; n >= unit; n /= unit {
		div *= unit
		exp++
	}
	return fmt.Sprintf("%.1f %ciB",
		float64(b)/float64(div), "KMGTPE"[exp])
}

byte-count.go

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