I'm currently dealing with an increasing set of *very* large files,
most of them in the order of gigabytes. It becomes impossible to
figure the size of a file with ls -l with 9 or more digits displayed.
I would propose a new flag to ls which will together with option -l
change the unit to kilobytes for files larger than one megabyte, to
megabytes for files larger than one gigabyte and gigabytes for files
larger than one terabyte. A 'k', 'm' or 'g' respectively should be
appended.
Would such a patch find the blessing of the team and the maintainer
of ls ?
Joerg
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