Subject: Re: bug#14525: ls -k produced no size, ls -lk lists in bytes? What's up w/k?

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:47:50 -0700

On 06/01/2013 02:54 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> ... removing features that exceeded posix

As I explained to you in my previous message, no features
were removed.  Merely the option syntax was changed.

> What switch(es) are supposed to be used to choose what units to display
> sizes on the long listing?

The --block-size option.  See:

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#Block-size

Coreutils already has all the features that you asked for
in your email.