bug#11794: Bug is 'ls -k' command

[Eric Blake]

tag 11794 notabug
thanks

On 06/26/2012 02:11 PM, Joseph Felps wrote:
> When I use the -k switch with ls, like 'ls -lk' it used to show all
> the file sizes in kibibytes.  Now the switch, -k or --kibibytes has no
> effect at all.  This is with coreutils 8.17.

Thanks for the report.  However, from the NEWS for 8.15:

  ls's -k option no longer affects how ls -l outputs file sizes.
  It now affects only the per-directory block counts written by -l,
  and the sizes written by -s.  This is for compatibility with BSD
  and with POSIX 2008.  Because -k is no longer equivalent to
  --block-size=1KiB, a new long option --kibibyte stands for -k.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-4.5.4]

Sounds like you want to use --block-size=1KiB instead.  Our change to -k
was intentional, to match POSIX, so this is not a bug.

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