Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:04:56 +1300 From: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz> To: current@freebsd.org Cc: joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Additional option to ls -l for large files Message-ID: <20000112110456.X5228@cs.waikato.ac.nz>
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I'm currently dealing with an increasing set of *very* large files, most of them in the order of gigabytes. It becomes impossible to figure the size of a file with ls -l with 9 or more digits displayed. I would propose a new flag to ls which will together with option -l change the unit to kilobytes for files larger than one megabyte, to megabytes for files larger than one gigabyte and gigabytes for files larger than one terabyte. A 'k', 'm' or 'g' respectively should be appended. Would such a patch find the blessing of the team and the maintainer of ls ? Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz> Waikato Applied Network Dynamics Phone: +64 7 8384794 The University of Waikato, CompScience Fax: +64 7 8384155 Private Bag 3105 Pager: +64 868 38222 Hamilton, New Zealand Plan: TINE and the DAG's To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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