Re: Mc Digest, Vol 64, Issue 10

[chris glur <crglur gmail com>]

Yes ok, I supose it does become a problem as file
sizes increase.  Since we've still only got 10 fingers,
and 26 letters and decreasing intellectual output, I see
little reason for files to increase.  Except if they
encapsulate mult-files or are big data-sets.
A more important/necessary use of ls is to see it 2 files
are EXACTLY the same size, than rounding [ambigiously] to K.

I think you already KNOW that/why extensions/mods have potential
problems. google: Design by committee ? Parkinson's law/s ?



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> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:10:21 +0200
> From: Renato <rennabh gmail com>
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> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:24:50 +0200
> chris glur <crglur gmail com> wrote:
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> > Following user's quirky requests for eg.
> > * ls -lh type format
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> I don't want to insist, but could you explain me why/how this is quirky
> and will likely lead to disaster? If it were a choosable option, I
> could see only benefits from it.
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> btw maybe I didn't explain myself correctly, but I meant ls -lh type
> format *only* for file's sizes, which are now expressed only in
> kilobyte (or kilobit, sorry I confuse everytime) and thus big files
> (several gigas) are, for me, a problem. I'd rather know a file is
> approxiamtely 21Gb than 22011791872 kilobit/byte, or 698Mb rather than
> 731781120.
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> Renato
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