Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Re: 'ls' human-readable sizes

[Boruch Baum]

On 2017-06-18 22:14, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 18/06/17 19:02, Boruch Baum wrote:
> > On 2017-06-18 11:32, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> >> On 18/06/17 03:51, Boruch Baum wrote:

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> > want to use it for your option (eg. `--format='%f €' ). Even if you
Hmm, this was supposed to be a 'euro currency sign'.  ^^

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> > 2.1] The current `h' doesn't note the units of small-sized files as
> > `bytes', so let it do so, but instead of marking those numbers with a
> > `B', use a space (a kind of "silent" `b', like in "lamb").
>
> You mean, a kind of "silent" `b', like in "subtle" :)
>
> > The result
> > would align all numbers in the column, and it would be easier to note
> > the `K', `M', etc. markers. This suggestion produces the same result
> > as indentation, but is just a tweak to the already existing `h' for
> > small values.
>
> This isn't a bad suggestion.
> A 1 minute patch not considering edge cases to do that is:

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> Which results in this output:
>
> drwxrwxr-x. 26 padraig padraig 4.0K Jun 17 19:50 tests
> -r--r--r--.  1 padraig padraig  48K Mar  8 21:02 THANKS
> -rwxrwxr-x.  1 padraig padraig 441  May 28  2012 thanks-gen
> -rw-rw-r--.  1 padraig padraig  38K Mar 11 10:44 THANKS.in
> -rw-rw-r--.  1 padraig padraig 2.0K Mar  9 23:07 THANKS-to-translators
> -rw-rw-r--.  1 padraig padraig 121  Aug 23  2011 THANKStt.in
> -rw-rw-r--.  1 padraig padraig 6.7K Jan  1 14:34 TODO
>
> Not to everyone's taste I suppose being not right aligned.

I'll vote thumbs up, since it's optional, but it occurs to me to ask,
without knowing the `ls' internals: does this mess up or complicate
sorting by size?

> > 2.2] Does LS_COLORS operate only on the final field? Is there a
> > possible user hack to have LS_COLORS operate on the size field?
>
> Not at present. You might be able to do some post processing highlighting
> like my http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/l script does.

I'll check it out, thanks.

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