Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:00:18 +1300 From: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files Message-ID: <20000113120018.H5228@cs.waikato.ac.nz> In-Reply-To: <v04210106b4a296b28cc2@[128.113.24.47]>; from Garance A Drosihn on Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:21:05PM -0500 References: <200001120201.SAA26378@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <v04210106b4a296b28cc2@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:21:05PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > The first one changes because it's over 1 megabyte, but the second > one does not change. So you get: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1951k Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c > -rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 999123 Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c > > Okay now, how many people can look at those lines and immediately > see that the first file is "about" twice the size of the second > file? Probably nobody, not without pulling out a calculator. The Point taken. What about: -rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1951k Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c -rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 999123 Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c or: -rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1951k Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c -rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 999123 Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c I can see Oliver's proposal making a lot of sense here, the more since we avoid the discussion about K/M/G/T being base 2 or 10. Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz> Waikato Applied Network Dynamics Phone: +64 7 8384794 The University of Waikato, CompScience Fax: +64 7 8384155 Private Bag 3105 Pager: +64 868 38222 Hamilton, New Zealand Plan: TINE and the DAG's To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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