Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 09/08/2013 06:15 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Coreutils 8.21
'ls -lk file' gives bytes, not kibytes
'ls -l --kibibytes file' gives bytes, not kibytes
'ls -l --block-size=1024 file' gives the proper response
Checking back a little, I have the same problem with Coreutils-8.17.
Sounds like commit
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=448718c1
between v8.14..v8.15.
NEWS entry:
+ ls's -k option no longer affects how ls -l outputs file sizes.
+ It now affects only the per-directory block counts written by -l,
+ and the sizes written by -s. This is for compatibility with BSD
+ and with POSIX 2008. Because -k is no longer equivalent to
+ --block-size=1KiB, a new long option --kibibyte stands for -k.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-4.5.4]
I'm not sure what you are saying. Is 'ls -lk' valid or not? If not, I
think the man page needs to be clarified:
-k, --kibibytes
use 1024-byte blocks
From the above, I don't know what 'per-directory block counts' means.
'ls -lks file' produces bytes, so the above is not correct for that either.
-- Bruce
