GNU bug report logs - #14525
ls -k produced no size, ls -lk lists in bytes? What's up w/k?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>

Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 01:05:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Linda A. Walsh" <lkml <at> tlinx.org>
Cc: 14525 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Subject: bug#14525: ls -k produced no size, ls -lk lists in bytes?  What's up w/k?
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:35:24 -0700

On 06/01/2013 09:20 AM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> 	What replaced it?
> 
> 	I mean it doesn't do something *different*, it just ignores it.

I'm not sure what behavior you're asking for, but if you want
the old behavior of -k, you can use the --block-size=1KiB
option.  So no functionality was lost.

-k (and --block-size=1KiB) affects only the block size of
displayed values; it doesn't affect the choice of which
values to display.
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