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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2011-11-11 23:21:13 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2011-11-11 23:21:50 -0800 |
| commit | 448718c123838891500afa7fbda06335e7258592 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c0bb1d206db461f72cd4a192e0a439d980466c9 /doc/coreutils.texi | |
| parent | 1d9fe527a0ff85ca757a74338c5f1b523473b377 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-448718c123838891500afa7fbda06335e7258592.tar.xz | |
ls: -k no longer affects -l's file sizes
This fixes an incompatibility with POSIX 2008 and with BSD.
Problem reported by Abdallah Clark (Bug#9939)
via Alan Curry (Bug#10016).
* NEWS: Document this.
* doc/coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Document the
new -k behavior, and --kibibytes.
* src/ls.c (file_human_output_opts): New static var.
(long_options, usage): Add --kibibytes.
(decode_switches, gobble_file, print_long_format):
Implement the new -k behavior.
* tests/ls/block-size: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/coreutils.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 2c33fe8b5..453144046 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7127,10 +7127,19 @@ Append @samp{*} for executable regular files, otherwise behave as for @end table @item -k +@itemx --kibibytes @opindex -k -Print file sizes in 1024-byte blocks, overriding the default block -size (@pxref{Block size}). -This option is equivalent to @option{--block-size=1K}. +@opindex --kibibytes +Set the default block size to its normal value of 1024 bytes, +overriding any contrary specification in environment variables +(@pxref{Block size}). This option is in turn overridden by the +@option{--block-size}, @option{-h} or @option{--human-readable}, and +@option{--si} options. + +The @option{-k} or @option{--kibibytes} option affects the +per-directory block count written by the @option{-l} and similar +options, and the size written by the @option{-s} or @option{--size} +option. It does not affect the file size written by @option{-l}. @item -m @itemx --format=commas |