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| author | Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de> | 2011-11-15 11:55:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2011-11-15 11:55:23 -0700 |
| commit | e36e6f2c6e95d6e23be805f7bab6c596b1818d22 (patch) | |
| tree | e327556e3499d491167fae48266aa67976ab0843 /src | |
| parent | 97842f0b9779b0f74a6560bf9c80870de1d3708d (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-e36e6f2c6e95d6e23be805f7bab6c596b1818d22.tar.xz | |
ls: another reword of generic size note
* src/system.h (emit_size_note): Use "unit" rather than "suffix",
and move multiplication to example instead of in suffix list.
See additional discussion in Bug#9939.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/system.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/system.h b/src/system.h index 1cbde92cd..ae8dcc20c 100644 --- a/src/system.h +++ b/src/system.h @@ -516,8 +516,8 @@ static inline void emit_size_note (void) { fputs (_("\n\ -SIZE is an integer with an optional suffix (example: 10MB). Suffixes are:\n\ -KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y.\n\ +SIZE is an integer and optional unit (example: 10M is 10*1024*1024). Units\n\ +are K, M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y (powers of 1024) or KB, MB, ... (powers of 1000).\n\ "), stdout); } |