On 2000-Jan-13 09:54:17 +1100, Joerg Micheel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1951k Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c
>-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 999123 Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c
You still need to mentally re-align the numbers before you can compare
the sizes.
>-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1951k Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c
>-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 999123 Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c
This reduces the number of significant figures to a level which
allows a quicker grasp of the size, but doesn't resolve the column-
width problem.
The other option would be to require a flag to ls to trigger the
behaviour - in which case all the files use the same suffix:
$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1951456 Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 999123 Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c
$ ls -lK
-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1951k Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 999k Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c
$ ls -lM
-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 2M Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1M Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c
Conveniently, -K, -M and -G are still available. Unfortunately, -T
and -P are taken (though -p isn't). I'll stay out of the 2^x vs
10^y debate.
Peter
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