From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 12 12:26:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ED1814DFD for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:26:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA50497; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:26:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:26:09 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001122026.VAA50497@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-current In-Reply-To: <85g9n7$2ql7$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Personally, I'd much prefer to simply use separator characters like this: -rw------- 1 olli olli 211,602,776 Nov 28 23:09 S1E1.mpg This makes it very easy to recognize the size, and you still have the exact number of bytes, not rounded. It's even possible to to respect the locale setting (LC_NUMERIC) and use the appropriate character as separator. Just my 0.02 Euro. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message