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Re: kilo is k and not K
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: kilo is k and not K |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:36:11 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Philip Rowlands <address@hidden> writes:
> There is a slight bug in the documentation of ls
Thanks for mentioning that. Here is a patch:
2007-02-28 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
* doc/coreutils.texi (Common options): --si outputs "M", not "MB".
Problem reported by Philip Rowlands in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-02/msg00283.html>.
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index b313afd..23451fe 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -558,8 +558,8 @@ symbolic link to a directory. @xref{Target directory}.
@itemx --si
@opindex --si
@cindex SI output
-Append an SI-style abbreviation to each size, such as @samp{MB} for
-megabytes. Powers of 1000 are used, not 1024; @samp{MB} stands for
+Append an SI-style abbreviation to each size, such as @samp{M} for
+megabytes. Powers of 1000 are used, not 1024; @samp{M} stands for
1,000,000 bytes. This option is equivalent to
@option{--block-size=si}. Use the @option{-h} or
@option{--human-readable} option if
M doc/ChangeLog
M doc/coreutils.texi
Committed as aac4a5f6d6e238d86130decbb92fd399010834d3