> 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 ?
Another thing that ``works for me''. Only make it ki, mi, and gi
to fit with the new binary mode international appreviation standards,
unless of cource you use base 10 divisors.
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