Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:29:48 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files Message-ID: <00Jan13.102949est.40324@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20000113120018.H5228@cs.waikato.ac.nz>; from joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz on Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 09:54:17AM %2B1100 References: <200001120201.SAA26378@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <v04210106b4a296b28cc2@[128.113.24.47]> <20000113120018.H5228@cs.waikato.ac.nz>
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On 2000-Jan-13 09:54:17 +1100, Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz> wrote: >-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1951k Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c >-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 999123 Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c You still need to mentally re-align the numbers before you can compare the sizes. >-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1951k Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c >-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 999123 Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c This reduces the number of significant figures to a level which allows a quicker grasp of the size, but doesn't resolve the column- width problem. The other option would be to require a flag to ls to trigger the behaviour - in which case all the files use the same suffix: $ ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1951456 Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c -rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 999123 Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c $ ls -lK -rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1951k Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c -rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 999k Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c $ ls -lM -rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 2M Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c -rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1M Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c Conveniently, -K, -M and -G are still available. Unfortunately, -T and -P are taken (though -p isn't). I'll stay out of the 2^x vs 10^y debate. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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