From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 11 23:50:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mta3.snfc21.pbi.net (mta3.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 229E015121 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 23:50:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jazepeda@pacbell.net) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org ([207.214.117.93]) by mta3.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with ESMTP id <0FO700JLZPPQIK@mta3.snfc21.pbi.net> for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 23:49:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82C1E9184E; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 23:49:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 23:49:11 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files In-reply-to: <387BC4A6.3B7DF57A@cvzoom.net> To: Donn Miller Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Donn Miller wrote: > Or else we could put both in. There could be either a command-line > option or env variable set that selects between decimal (true metric) > or powers of two (computer metric, or whatever). What about making ls sensitive to $BLOCKSIZE, but only if enabled with a command line option? This way you could get sizes listed in 2.5 megabytes if you so desired... - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message