On 06/04/2013 02:24 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > And you can always set > > export LS_BLOCK_SIZE="'1kB" > > in your environment to have that by default all of the time for ls.
That only works if you use a locale where %'d inserts thousands separators. If you ever run with LC_ALL=C, the ' flag is a no-op. But this is actually a GOOD thing! It means that your interactive shell usage (typically under something like LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8) is human-friendly, while your scripts (at least robust scripts, such as ./configure scripts generated by autoconf) can force the locale to be sane so that they aren't dealing with unexpected input (not that 'ls -l' output is very reliable to parse in the first place, but it would be even less reliable with thousands separators). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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