Re: Showing actual filesizes with ls

[James Youngman]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:50:20PM +0100, Joakim Rosqvist (JRO.SE) wrote:

> I would like to see a new option to ls that works like --size (showing
> filenames and sizes in as many columns as will fit onscreen), but shows
> filesize instead of disk usage.  

I have no opinion on this aspect.

> I volounteer to write the patch (in fact, I've already submitted it here,
> but got no feedback), so I'm asking for comments, e.g. what would be the
> best size to show for a symlink: the size of the link or the size of the 
> file referred to?  What would be the best default blocksize (currently,
> I'm using file_output_block_size which is 1).

The POSIX options -H and -L should control this.  They are already
implemented.  It might be worth also implementing the similar option
-P which BSD introduced.  GNU find implements -P.  The -P option turns
off any effect of -H or -L.

James.