I have modified ls to include a --thousands-separator option that
puts thousands' separators in the file size field. It does this with
printf's apostrophe format specifier (%'), which automatically makes it
locale aware. My patch also widens the default file size field from 8
to 10 chars so that sizes up to 9999999999 (9,999,999,999) print aligned.
Please consider adding this change into ls.
I know ls has the -h option, but I find that I prefer file sizes shown
as thousands-separated numbers in ls output instead of numbers with
scale-factor suffixes. For example,
$ ./ls -lh /boot/vmlinu*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.2M Apr 8 2001
/boot/vmlinux-2.4.2-2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 May 26 11:06 /boot/vmlinuz ->
vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 763k Apr 8 2001
/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
$ ./ls -l --thousands-separator /boot/vmlinu*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2,280,836 Apr 8 2001
/boot/vmlinux-2.4.2-2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 May 26 11:06 /boot/vmlinuz
-> vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 781,806 Apr 8 2001
/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
Below is sample output and the patch. (Note that --thousands-separator
can be shortened on the command line to just --th)
$ echo $LANG
en_US
$ /bin/ls -l /tmp/foo (using ls version 4.0.36)
total 178716
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 104857600 Nov 2 00:03 file.100m
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 10485760 Nov 2 00:02 file.10m
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1073741824 Nov 2 00:05 file.1g
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1024 Nov 2 00:02 file.1k
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1048576 Nov 2 00:02 file.1m
$ ./ls -l /tmp/foo (my patch widens standard file size field to 10)
total 178716
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 104857600 Nov 2 00:03 file.100m
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 10485760 Nov 2 00:02 file.10m
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1073741824 Nov 2 00:05 file.1g
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1024 Nov 2 00:02 file.1k
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1048576 Nov 2 00:02 file.1m
$ ./ls -l --thousands-separator /tmp/foo (with new option)
total 178716
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 104,857,600 Nov 2 00:03 file.100m
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 10,485,760 Nov 2 00:02 file.10m
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1,073,741,824 Nov 2 00:05 file.1g
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1,024 Nov 2 00:02 file.1k
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1,048,576 Nov 2 00:02 file.1m
$ ./ls -l --th /tmp/foo (only really need to type '--th')
total 178716
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 104,857,600 Nov 2 00:03 file.100m
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 10,485,760 Nov 2 00:02 file.10m
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1,073,741,824 Nov 2 00:05 file.1g
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1,024 Nov 2 00:02 file.1k
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1,048,576 Nov 2 00:02 file.1m
$ env LANG=deutsch ./ls -l --th /tmp/foo (locale aware)
total 178716
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 104.857.600 Nov 2 00:03 file.100m
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 10.485.760 Nov 2 00:02 file.10m
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1.073.741.824 Nov 2 00:05 file.1g
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1.024 Nov 2 00:02 file.1k
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1.048.576 Nov 2 00:02 file.1m
===========START PATCH======================================
--- ls.c Fri Nov 2 02:00:42 2001
+++ ls.c.orig Thu Nov 1 22:58:01 2001
@@ -608,10 +608,6 @@
quoting methods pass through control chars as-is. */
static int qmark_funny_chars;
-/* Nonzero means print file size numbers with the locale's thousands
- separator. For example, "12,345,678". */
-static int print_with_thousands_sep;
-
/* Quoting options for file and dir name output. */
static struct quoting_options *filename_quoting_options;
@@ -667,7 +663,6 @@
SHOW_CONTROL_CHARS_OPTION,
SI_OPTION,
SORT_OPTION,
- THOUSANDS_SEPARATOR_OPTION,
TIME_OPTION
};
@@ -706,7 +701,6 @@
{"time", required_argument, 0, TIME_OPTION},
{"color", optional_argument, 0, COLOR_OPTION},
{"block-size", required_argument, 0, BLOCK_SIZE_OPTION},
- {"thousands-separator", no_argument, 0, THOUSANDS_SEPARATOR_OPTION},
{GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL},
{GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL},
{NULL, 0, NULL, 0}
@@ -980,7 +974,6 @@
int sort_type_specified = 0;
qmark_funny_chars = 0;
- print_with_thousands_sep = 0;
/* initialize all switches to default settings */
@@ -1127,7 +1120,6 @@
case 'h':
output_block_size = -1024;
- print_with_thousands_sep = 0;
break;
case 'H':
@@ -1138,7 +1130,6 @@
/* Fall through. */
case SI_OPTION:
output_block_size = -1000;
- print_with_thousands_sep = 0;
break;
case 'i':
@@ -1343,10 +1334,6 @@
human_block_size (optarg, 1, &output_block_size);
break;
- case THOUSANDS_SEPARATOR_OPTION:
- print_with_thousands_sep = 1;
- break;
-
case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR;
case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS);
@@ -2542,10 +2529,7 @@
else
{
char hbuf[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE + 1];
- if (print_with_thousands_sep)
- sprintf (p, "%'13lu ", f->stat.st_size);
- else
- sprintf (p, "%10s ",
+ sprintf (p, "%8s ",
human_readable ((uintmax_t) f->stat.st_size, hbuf, 1,
output_block_size < 0 ? output_block_size : 1));
}
@@ -3330,7 +3314,6 @@
specified time as sort key if --sort=time\n\
-t sort by modification time\n\
-T, --tabsize=COLS assume tab stops at each COLS instead of 8\n\
- --thousands-separator print file sizes with locale's thousands
separator\n\
-u with -lt: sort by, and show, access time\n\
with -l: show access time and sort by
name\n\
otherwise: sort by access time\n\
===========END PATCH========================================
--
John W. Saalwaechter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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