This is one of the common suggestions I hear whenever I bring up the idea with people on IRC, etc... though I realize you're not suggesting it to me as a "just use -h and forget it".
However, in case anyone reading this *IS* thinking in the back of their mind, I'd like to state for the record that I prefer to see the full size in bytes more often than 9.0K, etc, especially when I'm looking at filesizes to find if they're identical. On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Bob Proulx <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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). > > I hadn't thought of that. Good points. > > Personally I don't use the thousands separators. I use ls -h most of > the time to get readable human output. A personal preference. > > Bob > -- smu johnson <[email protected]>
