severity 34110 wishlist
retitle 34110 du: add dual-column showing apparent-size and disk-size
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Hello,
On 2019-01-17 3:13 a.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote:
On Wednesday January 16 2019 16:06:50 Assaf Gordon wrote:
I hope this helps to clarify "apparent-size".
Yes and no :) I understand what "apparent-size" does [....]
My whole point is that there might be a better name.
The parameter name "--apparent-size" is not likely to be changed.
It has been named so for about 16 years (since 'fileutils 4.5.8'
which is even before 'coreutils' was created as a unified package).
Changing it would break existing scripts and user expectations.
I realise that you cannot really call the content size observable "real size" when
reporting from a disk-usage viewpoint, but "content size" (--content-size, -C) should be
clear enough?
Creating a second alias to "--apparent-size" is possible, but I'm not
sure it's warranted.
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I think the discussion about "--apparent-size" is mostly concluded,
but the idea to have two-columns is an interesting feature request.
I'm marking this as a "wish list" item.
Concrete patches are welcomed.
regards,
- assaf
