"Ian Murdock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > > You may continue to be snarky if ls -h became a common solaris
> > > invocation, but I doubt your users would be upset at no longer having
> > > to multiply by 2 to get K, and to get the size rounded to MB, GB,
> > > etc.

> As I'll say till I'm blue in the face, I'm as obsessed with
> compatibility as anyone here. But I have to ask: What exactly
> would break if -h *were* the default behavior? Point is: There's a big

If this would be done with all versions of ls: POSIX compatibility.

Jörg

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