Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:19:59 -0600 From: Philip Kizer <pckizer@nostrum.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ls -h Message-ID: <200101300719.f0U7JxN10913@magus.nostrum.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:53:30 PST." <200101300553.VAA16932@rushe.aero.org>
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"Mike O'Brien" <obrien@rushe.aero.org> wrote:
> I don't know what 'ls -h' does on Linux, but 'ls -s' might do
>what you want. It gives the size of the file in blocks, followed by
>the file name. It's ideal for piping into 'sort'.
I have a feeling he means something to help parsing the numbers when you
start getting file sizes with more than 6 digits or so...
The first option is just to 'make install clean' in '/usr/ports/misc/gnuls'
and use the same option as on Linux as you'd then be using the same tool.
Personally, I never much cared for adding gnuls; I just don't like the way
it changes all file sizes to be no more than 3 digits with a multiplier
suffix (i.e. 21k, 951, 37k, 3.9k, 1.0M, 37k), as that doesn't jump out at
me visually enough. So, I just use a small 3-line perl filter (it requires
Number::Format module for the hard work):
--- commaize ------------------------------------
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wp
# Trivial hack by Philip Kizer <pckizer@nostrum.com>
use Number::Format qw(:subs);
s/(^|\s)(\d{4,})/$1 $2/g;
s/\s(\d{4,})/format_number($1)/ge;
then I just invoke it as "ls -l | commaize" when needed to help discern
really large file sizes.
-philip
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Philip Kizer,
USENIX Liaison to Texas A&M University <usenix@tamu.edu>
Texas A&M CIS Operating Systems Group, Unix <pckizer@tamu.edu>
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