13 Mar
2020
13 Mar
'20
6:36 a.m.
On Thursday, 12 March 2020 at 16:22:01 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
Yes, currently only FreeBSD has it. But you have the sources. Apart
from option handling, it's only:
--- print.c (.../head/bin/ls/print.c) (revision 241014)
+++ print.c (.../stable/10/bin/ls/print.c) (working copy)
@@ -606,6 +606,10 @@
humanize_number(buf, sizeof(buf), (int64_t)bytes, "",
HN_AUTOSCALE, HN_B | HN_NOSPACE | HN_DECIMAL);
(void)printf("%*s ", (u_int)width, buf);
+ } else if (f_thousands) { /* with commas */
+ /* This format assignment needed to work round gcc bug. */
+ const char *format = "%*j'd ";
+ (void)printf(format, (u_int)width, bytes);
} else
(void)printf("%*jd ", (u_int)width, bytes);
}
A quick and dirty fix would be simply to replace the format string.
Greg
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
wrote:
It's a common misconception that -ize is US English. The Oxford
English Dictionary, normally not prescriptive, prefers it. See
https://www.oed.com/page/faqs/Frequently+asked+questions#spell. I
personally had -ise drummed out of me by my uncle, very much
Australian.
A good example. But you're not removing
options, you're just redefining
them. In fact I find the -h option particularly emetic, so a better
choice in removing options would be to remove -h and use a filter to
mutilate the sizes:
$ ls -l | humanize
I also had something like that in mind, except being British/Australian
I'd spell it with an "s" :-) And then
there's the question why you don't like the standard output.
Because the number strings are too long and difficult to read, maybe?
That's the rationale for the -, option.
More than likely; as I approach age 68 I notice that I'm losing some
cognitive facility... I might start using "," and see if I like it, but I
see that the Mac doesn't have it (my Penguin is off the air at the
moment), and having it as an environment variable would be nice.