Subject: Re: bug#17838: ls: unit displayed for block size when if size is displayed in human-readable format

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:44:56 +0100

On 06/24/2014 09:12 AM, Michal Sekletar wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 05:56:10PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> OK the info docs are clear enough, stating that -h is the same as
>> --block-size=human-readable etc. We might be able to tweak the
>> --help (man page) for the -s and/or -h options accordingly also.
> 
> Sorry, didn't look at info pages. In any case, tweaking man page would be very
> appreciated. Thanks!

I'll push the attached later.

thanks,
Pádraig.

>From 6635f0b0f71f68ab4e9108091bc6049ddb143648 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:33:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: state in ls --help, that -h affects --size format

* src/ls.c (usage): State that --human changes --size format.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/17838
---
 src/ls.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index 25e10fa..54c6705 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -4828,7 +4828,7 @@ Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified.\n\
 "), stdout);
       fputs (_("\
   -G, --no-group             in a long listing, don't print group names\n\
-  -h, --human-readable       with -l, print sizes in human readable format\n\
+  -h, --human-readable       with -l and/or -s, print human readable sizes\n\
                                (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)\n\
       --si                   likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024\n\
 "), stdout);
-- 
1.7.7.6