On Sunday 03 of May 2009 09:44:53 Horvath Andras wrote: > As you can see, the number of bytes are correct (52428800 bytes), but > the 52 MB is false. Listing the file with 'ls -lh' shows 50 MB too as > expected.
Looking in dd(1) man page, 50 MB means 50*1000*1000. It uses SI units. To use the SI units with ls, try ls -l --si Kamil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils