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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2001-12-21 11:36:35 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2001-12-21 11:36:35 +0000
commit51a3adcefa75f46e93391f8fd79fc9cf35c6df67 (patch)
treea5521404e17bbd5ebf479c25d2c8fc64fa0888c4
parentd1772031eefaec26e15bd526f6bd6c959ce059b6 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-51a3adcefa75f46e93391f8fd79fc9cf35c6df67.tar.xz
(usage): Deprecate --kilobytes. Document size suffixes.
-rw-r--r--src/ls.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index 2416e1e2f..b585b31c7 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ static struct option const long_options[] =
{"full-time", no_argument, 0, FULL_TIME_OPTION},
{"human-readable", no_argument, 0, 'h'},
{"inode", no_argument, 0, 'i'},
- {"kilobytes", no_argument, 0, 'k'},
+ {"kilobytes", no_argument, 0, 'k'}, /* long form is obsolescent */
{"numeric-uid-gid", no_argument, 0, 'n'},
{"no-group", no_argument, 0, 'G'},
{"hide-control-chars", no_argument, 0, 'q'},
@@ -3610,7 +3610,7 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
none (default), classify (-F), file-type (-p)\n\
-i, --inode print index number of each file\n\
-I, --ignore=PATTERN do not list implied entries matching shell PATTERN\n\
- -k, --kilobytes like --block-size=1024\n\
+ -k like --block-size=1K\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
-l use a long listing format\n\
@@ -3669,6 +3669,10 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
+ fputs (_("\n\
+SIZE may be (or may be an integer optionally followed by) one of following:\n\
+kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1,000,000, M 1,048,576, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y.\n\
+"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
\n\
By default, color is not used to distinguish types of files. That is\n\