Re: Showing actual filesizes with ls

2005-01-25 Thread Joakim Rosqvist (JRO.SE)
Showing major/minor-numbers is an interesting idea (show what ls -l would have shown). This sounds a bit too much like creeping featurism. How about if we just add a more-general argument that lets you specify the desired output fields, as a format string? That's in the TODO list. It would

Re: Showing actual filesizes with ls

2005-01-23 Thread Joakim Rosqvist (JRO.SE)
Joakim Rosqvist (JRO.SE) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to see a new option to ls that works like --size (showing filenames and sizes in as many columns as will fit onscreen), but shows filesize instead of disk usage. Isn't this need fairly specialized? Couldn't you

Showing actual filesizes with ls

2005-01-22 Thread Joakim Rosqvist (JRO.SE)
It seems the only way to display the actual filesize (as opposed to disk usage) with ls is to use the long listing format (-l), but then the output will show only one file per line. I would like to see a new option to ls that works like --size (showing filenames and sizes in as many columns as

patch, apparent size for ls

2005-01-18 Thread Joakim Rosqvist (JRO.SE)
Hi, (I have submitted this before, but do not see my mail in the gnu-coreutils archives so I try again) This is a patch that adds the --apparent-size option found in du to the ls command. It works like --size but prints the file size instead of the disk usage. Of course, the file size can be