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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>

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
Cc: 14525 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14525: ls -k produced no size, ls -lk lists in bytes?  What's up w/k?
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 16:53:13 +0100

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On 06/01/2013 02:02 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> 
> in Coreutils 8.21.1.1 (x86_64) on snoozy
> When I type in ls -k, I get a small listing (filenames only horizontally)
> (and no sizes).
> When I type in ls -lk, I get a long listing -- but it isn't using K, but
> bytes.
> 
> :-(.
> 
> Why k no worky?

Since coreutils 8.15 the behavior was changed to be more consistent
with other systems and POSIX:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=448718

thanks,
Pádraig.
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