Re: suggestion for 'ls' coreutil, comma'd filesizes in -l output (original) (raw)

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From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: suggestion for 'ls' coreutil, comma'd filesizes in -l output
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:35:33 -0600
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On 06/04/2013 02:24 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:

And you can always set

export LSBLOCKSIZE="'1kB"

in your environment to have that by default all of the time for ls.

That only works if you use a locale where %'d inserts thousands separators. If you ever run with LC_ALL=C, the ' flag is a no-op.

But this is actually a GOOD thing! It means that your interactive shell usage (typically under something like LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8) is human-friendly, while your scripts (at least robust scripts, such as ./configure scripts generated by autoconf) can force the locale to be sane so that they aren't dealing with unexpected input (not that 'ls -l' output is very reliable to parse in the first place, but it would be even less reliable with thousands separators).

-- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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