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bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for <ls> and <
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Paul Eggert |
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bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for <ls> and <du> |
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Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:24:26 -0700 |
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On 11/02/11 19:33, abdallah clark wrote:
> am I to be able to use <1000*1000> or <1024*1024> in
> either one of those commands?
Not those exact strings, no. At least, not as far as I know.
But "MB" is short for 1000*1000, and "M" for 1024*1024.
> I saw that I could use other numerics,
> even odd amounts, but nothing with an implied evaluation as the
> description of SIZE starts off by saying.
Sorry, don't follow. Perhaps an example would clarify?
> I can see no rhyme or reason why I get lowercase K, or KB or
> kB, etc. for the <ls> command, either.
Again, I'm lost. Got a specific example?
> The same goes for the statement on mandatory options. Just what is a
> long option as compared to a short option?
A long option is something like --ignore='*.x'.
A short option is something like -I '*.x'.
Typically, for every short option there's an equivalent long
option, but the reverse is not necessarily true.
> How do I know what is
> mandatory from what isn't?
Optional arguments are written in square brackets in the
documentation, e.g., --color[=WHEN]. This isn't written
down in the man page, unfortunately. It is described (not
all that well) in the full manual, here:
http://www.gnu.org/s/coreutils/manual/html_node/General-output-formatting.html#index-g_t_002d_002dcolor-791
- bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for <ls> and <du>, abdallah clark, 2011/11/02
- bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for <ls> and <du>, Pádraig Brady, 2011/11/02
- bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for <ls> and <du>, Paul Eggert, 2011/11/02
- bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for <ls> and <du>, abdallah clark, 2011/11/09
- bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for <ls> and <du>, Paul Eggert, 2011/11/09
- bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for <ls> and <du>, abdallah clark, 2011/11/09
- bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for <ls> and <du>, Paul Eggert, 2011/11/09
- bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for <ls> and <du>, abdallah clark, 2011/11/10
- bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for <ls> and <du>, Jim Meyering, 2011/11/10
- bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for <ls> and <du>, Bob Proulx, 2011/11/10
- bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for <ls> and <du>, abdallah clark, 2011/11/10
- bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for <ls> and <du>, Eric Blake, 2011/11/10