[debbugs-tracker] bug#13902: closed (BUG : Option -k / --kibibytes no longer works with ls)

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> BUG : Option -k / --kibibytes no longer works with ls
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> Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:09:24 +0100
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> This is to tell you that option -k (--kibibytes) no longer works with 
> the ls command.
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> Sample output:
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> $ ls -l
> total 81644
> drwxrwxr-x. 23 root root     4096 Dec  3 20:22 linux-3.7-rc8
> -rw-rw-r--.  1 seb  seb  83581254 Dec  5 21:26 linux-3.7-rc8.tar.bz2
> drwx------.  2 root root    16384 May  9  2012 lost+found
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> $ ls -lk
> total 81644
> drwxrwxr-x. 23 root root     4096 Dec  3 20:22 linux-3.7-rc8
> -rw-rw-r--.  1 seb  seb  83581254 Dec  5 21:26 linux-3.7-rc8.tar.bz2
> drwx------.  2 root root    16384 May  9  2012 lost+found
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> Tested on: Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" with ls (GNU coreutils) 8.17.
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> Regards,
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#13902: BUG : Option -k / --kibibytes no longer works with ls Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 06:06:17 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130219 Thunderbird/17.0.3

tag 13902 notabug
thanks

On 03/08/2013 01:09 AM, Sebastien wrote:
> Hi,
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> This is to tell you that option -k (--kibibytes) no longer works with
> the ls command.

Thanks for the report.  However, according to NEWS, this was a bug fix
of coreutils 8.15:

  ls's -k option no longer affects how ls -l outputs file sizes.
  It now affects only the per-directory block counts written by -l,
  and the sizes written by -s.  This is for compatibility with BSD
  and with POSIX 2008.  Because -k is no longer equivalent to
  --block-size=1KiB, a new long option --kibibyte stands for -k.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-4.5.4]

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> Sample output:
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> $ ls -l
> total 81644
> drwxrwxr-x. 23 root root     4096 Dec  3 20:22 linux-3.7-rc8
> -rw-rw-r--.  1 seb  seb  83581254 Dec  5 21:26 linux-3.7-rc8.tar.bz2
> drwx------.  2 root root    16384 May  9  2012 lost+found
> 
> $ ls -lk
> total 81644
> drwxrwxr-x. 23 root root     4096 Dec  3 20:22 linux-3.7-rc8
> -rw-rw-r--.  1 seb  seb  83581254 Dec  5 21:26 linux-3.7-rc8.tar.bz2
> drwx------.  2 root root    16384 May  9  2012 lost+found

This is the correct behavior required by POSIX when using 'ls -k'.  You
were relying on an alternate behavior, where it was a bug that -k
exposed the alternate behavior; but that alternate behavior is still
available to you if you use the proper spelling:

ls -l --block-size=k

Therefore, I'm closing this as not a bug.  Feel free to add further
comments or questions.

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