Re: Feature request(s) df and ls/dir

[Chris Oxenreider]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, James Youngman wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:03:15AM -0500, Chris Oxenreider wrote:
>
> > I have two things I would like to see.  In no particular order:
> >
> > I would like to se ls/dir report 'megabytes' much like the feature in
> > 'du -m' or 'df -m' does.
>
> How exactly would this differ from
>         ls -lh
>         ls -s --block-size=1M
>         ls -l --block-size=1M

It doesn't.  Thanks!


> > I would also like to see 'df' add line feeds in when reporting space in
> > long device names such as Linux LVMs.
>
> The df program already does this by default I think.  Are you asking
> for a behaviour where df *avoids* doing this?

Yes, I meant to say 'not add line feeds'.

> How is this different from
>         df -PB 1M
>         df -Ph

Other than the man page not saying what 'Posix' means (IE no line feeds)
and the loss of column alignment, not much.  Thanks.

My brain was not quite functioning so well at 3am when I was writing the
requests.  After messing with large logical volumes (aix and Linux) and
SAN disks et all I was looking for ways to cut down on the amount of
stuff I needed to read and comprehend.   Thanks for the help.



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