On 06/04/2013 06:23 PM, smu johnson wrote: > Dear coreutils email maintainer, > > I have a suggestion for 'ls'. My idea is a GNU extension switch which > commafies (for lack of a better word) the filesizes in the basic -l output of > integers. This has been the default for 'dir' since MS-DOS, but I think it > might be a good addition for an optional switch in 'ls', in which case i'd > "enable it" by making / modifying my alias for 'ls'. > > Right now I use a frontend for 'ls' written in Perl to do the same job, but > as you can probably guess, the solution is a bit cludgey and likely prone to > fail down the road. But right now, its output is: > > sjohnson@web1:/tmp/sjohnson$ ls -l test* > -rw-r--r-- 1 sjohnson sjohnson 13,824 2012-12-10 13:32 test1.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 sjohnson sjohnson 9,973 2012-12-10 12:13 test.bin > -rw-r--r-- 1 sjohnson sjohnson 71 2013-04-10 17:49 test.txt > > Any thoughts or comments greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading. > > > -- > smu johnson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
You can do that through BLOCK_SIZE. That can be set in an alias for example like: alias l="BLOCK_SIZE=\'1 /bin/ls -l --color=auto" I use that and more in my "l" script at: http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/l cheers, Pádraig.
