GNU bug report logs - #9939
Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for <ls> and <du>

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: abdallah clark <clark-adc <at> clear.net>

Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 15:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Rüdiger Meier <sweet_f_a <at> gmx.de>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for
	<ls>	and <du>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:35:21 +0100

On Tuesday 15 November 2011, Eric Blake wrote:

> From e36e6f2c6e95d6e23be805f7bab6c596b1818d22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> [...]
> -SIZE is an integer with an optional suffix (example: 10MB). 
> Suffixes are:\n\
> -KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G, T, P,
> E, Z, Y.\n\
> +SIZE is an integer and optional unit (example: 10M is 10*1024*1024).
> Units\n\
> +are K, M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y (powers of 1024) or KB, MB, ... (powers
> of 1000).\n\

Reviewing this I see that the case "unit only without int" is not 
documented now. This has been changed already in 50e5d024.
Probably no problem because it's only --help and not info page. Just 
want to note that.

Saying "and/or" instead of "and" could make it narrowly but still not 
100% exactly and more confusing again.

cu,
Rudi
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