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bug#14556: suggestion for 'ls' coreutil, comma'd filesizes in -l output
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#14556: suggestion for 'ls' coreutil, comma'd filesizes in -l output |
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Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:30:47 +0100 |
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On 06/05/2013 07:50 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/04/2013 02:20 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>
>> You found another doc bug - I can confirm that the behavior has changed
>> in the meantime (I see a change in behavior between my testing on RHEL
>> 6.4 with stat 8.4, vs. Fedora 19 with stat 8.17), but do not see the
>> change mentioned in NEWS. I suspect the change happened with this
>> commit in 8.7:
>>
>> commit ca9aa7596094c4af094edb7eb63648570d53c100
>> Author: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat Nov 6 13:57:08 2010 -0700
>>
>> stat: do not rely on undefined behavior in printf formats
>
> I confirmed that this was indeed the point where the behavior changed.
>
> Any objection to a patch along these lines? I guess it's incomplete, as
> I'd also have to edit the NEWS hash since this is touching old news.
> Likewise, does the testsuite need to be enhanced to ensure we don't regress?
>
> From ff67e9a92f8ec64b70abffe8524a56f4f5062a8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 12:46:17 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention prior stat change
>
> Commit ca9aa759 had the side effect of changing 'stat -c "%'s" file'
> from outputting "?s" to the nicer "1,234", so this is worth mentioning
> in the NEWS.
>
> * NEWS: Mention 8.7 improvement in stat.
> ---
> NEWS | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index cad5eee..bd6085d 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -883,6 +883,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS
> -*- outline -*-
> However, with the above change to %X, %Y and %Z, we've made %W work
> the same way as the others.
>
> + stat supports additional flags, such as %'s for listing sizes with
> + the current locale's thousands separator.
> +
looks good thanks.
`make update-NEWS-hash` to update the hash before committing.
cheers,
Pádraig.