From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:24:33 GMT I know ls already has very many options, but I find it indispensable having the file-size field formatted with a thousands separator (e.g. a file size of 1234567890 prints as "1,234,567,890"). I think this is a nice idea. Some comments: * The thousands separator is locale-dependent, and you should use locale-dependent formatting instead of hardwiring ','. * It would be nice to combine -K and -h or -H somehow, e.g. to specify that all sizes are in SI megabytes, so that instead of -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 14,336 Dec 28 14:45 file3 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 1,101,004,800 Dec 28 14:49 file4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 35,127,296 Dec 28 14:54 file5 one would see something like this instead: -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 0M Dec 28 14:45 file3 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 1,101M Dec 28 14:49 file4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 35M Dec 28 14:54 file5 You wrote: Note that the -K option automatically widens the file size field from 8 to 13, which allows files up to 9,999,999,999 bytes to align properly in columns. This doesn't sound consistent to me. If the normal file size field is 8 (i.e. max is 99999999), then the -K file size field should be 10 (i.e. max is 99,999,999). Also, this runs into the problem that the ls output is too wide already. Perhaps the size width should be set automatically from the width of the widest file size.
