Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:49:39 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM (Michael VanLoon) Cc: joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files Message-ID: <200001112249.OAA25732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <8070C3A4E99ED211A63200105A19B99B3174A2@mail.edifecs.com> from Michael VanLoon at "Jan 11, 2000 02:39:50 pm"
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[Charset windows-1252 unsupported, skipping...] Arghh... windblows... > >> 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 ? > > > >Another thing that ``works for me''. Only make it ki, mi, and gi > >to fit with the new binary mode international appreviation standards, > >unless of cource you use base 10 divisors. > > Why not KB, MB or GB, since that's what you're actually reporting? Because KB MB and GB mean different things than KiB MiB and GiB. K = 10^3, Ki = 2^10 M = 10^6 Mi = 2^20 G = 10^9 Gi = 2^30 > What is this "binary mode international abbreviation standard"? See above... -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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