Using RVP's recipes -- success! Thank you very much, and d'oh, of course it makes sense that the default C/POSIX locale is "" -- the most 'reasonable' default.
p.s. yes, I used "ls -lM" not just the -M flag. You need -l otherwise -M by itself is a no-op. On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 11:50 PM RVP <r...@sdf.org> wrote: > On Fri, 26 May 2023, Michael Cheponis wrote: > > > I'm having no success trying to get ls to print file sizes, using the -M > > flag. > > > > The `thousands separator' char. is locale-specific. In the default C/POSIX > locale, it is "": > > $ locale -c thousands_sep > LC_NUMERIC > $ LC_NUMERIC=C locale -c thousands_sep > thousands_sep="" > $ LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 locale -k thousands_sep > thousands_sep="," > $ LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 ls -lM /netbsd.GENERIC > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 29,529,152 May 24 13:09 /netbsd.GENERIC > $ > > Set some locale in ~/.profile (or ~/.xinitrc, ~/.xsession, ...). Eg.: > > export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > export LC_CTYPE=$LANG > export LC_ALL="" > > -RVP >
