Re: ls enhancement

[Pádraig Brady]

On 14/01/15 10:58, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I was astonished that Linux dir/ls could not count files/dirs like DOS 
> and implemented it myself month ago.
> 
> It's now indispensable for me and maybe useful for others too?
> 
> Example:
> 
> 3997 0 /home/lxc $ \ls -l /usr
> total 272
> drwxrwxr-x   2 root root   73728 Jan 12 00:31 bin
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    4096 Jan  4 22:35 games
> drwxr-xr-x 110 root root   36864 Jan  4 21:55 include
> drwxrwxr-x 271 root root  106496 Jan  6 00:05 lib
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root    4096 Dec 12  2011 lib64
> drwxrwsr-x  13 root staff   4096 Oct 20 22:51 local
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   20480 Jan 12 02:23 sbin
> drwxrwxr-x 437 root root   16384 Jan 12 01:39 share
> drwxr-xr-x   8 root root    4096 Aug 12  2013 src
>    0 Files  0 Links  9 Dirs  -  270.336 (0) Bytes
> 
> 3998 0 /home/lxc $ \ls -lR /usr|tail
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root   285 May 21  1999 tile.cc
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root  1372 Jan 10  2000 tile.hh
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root  2482 Oct  5  2002 tileset.cc
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root  1671 Jan 27  2003 tileset.hh
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root  8771 Oct  5  2002 traverse.cc
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root  1079 Jan 27  2003 traverse.hh
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root  8438 Oct  5  2002 xmj3ts.cc
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root  1136 Aug 29  2003 xmj3ts.hh
>    45 Files  1 Link  0 Dirs  -  185.669 (185.631) Bytes
>    168.440 Files  29.257 Links  20.822 Dirs  #  6.053.652.735 
> (5.962.597.158) Bytes
> 
> 3999 0 /home/lxc $ ls --help
> ...
>    -J, --no-journal           in a long listing, do not add up files and 
> dirs
> ...
> 
> 
> -J to switch it off
> () is pure file size
> 
> It's easy, but I can supply my little dirty ls.diff for version 8.xx.

If we were to add it, it would have to be an option to turn it on.
TBH it does seem to munge functionality from du and wc.
Personally I rarely need to see disk usage in an ls listing,
and if I do it's for individual files, which is supported with -s.
If I want further disk usage coalescing handling hardlinks etc. I use du.

thanks,
Pádraig.