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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2007-02-28 22:25:53 +0100
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-02-28 22:25:53 +0100
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* doc/coreutils.texi (Common options): --si outputs "M", not "MB".
Problem reported by Philip Rowlands in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-02/msg00283.html>.
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@@ -558,8 +558,8 @@ symbolic link to a directory. @xref{Target directory}.
@itemx --si
@opindex --si
@cindex SI output
-Append an SI-style abbreviation to each size, such as @samp{MB} for
-megabytes. Powers of 1000 are used, not 1024; @samp{MB} stands for
+Append an SI-style abbreviation to each size, such as @samp{M} for
+megabytes. Powers of 1000 are used, not 1024; @samp{M} stands for
1,000,000 bytes. This option is equivalent to
@option{--block-size=si}. Use the @option{-h} or
@option{--human-readable} option if