On 12/06/2021 16:19, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> We could take the FreeBSD approach which is:
> 
>     %Hd  major device number in decimal (st_dev)
>     %Ld  minor device number in decimal (st_dev)
>     %Hr  major device type in decimal (st_rdev)
>     %Lr  minor device type in decimal (st_rdev)
> 
> Note I'd be inclined to not have a space between major,minor in default stat output,
> as there should be no ambiguity with locale formatted numbers, which could be
> the case with ls. For example, my ls alias uses thousands grouping with:
> alias ls="BLOCK_SIZE=\'1 ls --color=auto".
> I.e. the default format would from stat would be
> Device: %Hd,%Ld  ..... Device type: %Hr,%Lr
> 
> For consistency if we provided the above we should also probably provide:
> 
>    %r     (composed) device type in decimal (st_rdev)
>    %R     (composed) device type in hex (st_rdev)

The attached adds the new formats.
I'll follow up with another to adjust the default output accordingly.

cheers,
Pádraig