[bug #5034] Documentation for '-printf %k' insufficient

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Submitted by: ametzler                Project: findutils                    
Submitted on: Tue 09/02/2003 at 11:46
Category:  documentation              Severity:  5 - Major                  
Bug Group:  None                      Resolution:  None                     
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Summary:  Documentation for '-printf %k' insufficient

Original Submission:  

This is Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/208307



find's info documentation has just these expanations for %s and %k:

|  %k     File's size in 1K blocks (rounded up).

|  %s     File's size in bytes.

which imho fails to convey that %k reports the amount of disk space used by the 
file instead of just %s divided by size-of-block.



I'd suggest copying the respective explanation from GNU file/coreutils' info 
manual for ls -s.

            cu andreas



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