Simplest method to convert file-size with suffix to bytes

Question

Title says it all really, but I\'m currently using a simple function with a case statement to convert human-readable file size strings into a size in bytes. It works well en

Answer 1

See man numfmt.

# numfmt --from=iec 42 512K 10M 7G 3.5T
42
524288
10485760
7516192768
3848290697216

# numfmt --to=iec 42 524288 10485760 7516192768 3848290697216
42
512K
10M
7.0G
3.5T