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From: | Bruce Dubbs |
Subject: | bug#15308: ls -lk reports bytes, not kibytes |
Date: | Sun, 08 Sep 2013 13:43:33 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120628 Firefox/13.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.10.1 |
Paul Eggert wrote:
Bruce Dubbs wrote:I'm not sure what you are saying. Is 'ls -lk' valid or not?Yes, it's valid.I don't know what 'per-directory block counts' means.It's what's in the first line of output of "ls -l". $ ls -l total 5936 ...'ls -lks file' produces bytesIt produces block counts in column 1, bytes in column 6. '-k' affects the former, not the latter. -k is the default unless your environment has special settings, so normally specifying -k won't change the output.
OK, thanks Paul. I still think the man page could use some clarification. -- Bruce
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