Re: kilo is k and not K

[Paul Eggert]

Philip Rowlands <address@hidden> writes:

> There is a slight bug in the documentation of ls

Thanks for mentioning that.  Here is a patch:

2007-02-28  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * doc/coreutils.texi (Common options): --si outputs "M", not "MB".
        Problem reported by Philip Rowlands in
        <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-02/msg00283.html>.

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index b313afd..23451fe 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -558,8 +558,8 @@ symbolic link to a directory.  @xref{Target directory}.
 @itemx --si
 @opindex --si
 @cindex SI output
-Append an SI-style abbreviation to each size, such as @samp{MB} for
-megabytes.  Powers of 1000 are used, not 1024; @samp{MB} stands for
+Append an SI-style abbreviation to each size, such as @samp{M} for
+megabytes.  Powers of 1000 are used, not 1024; @samp{M} stands for
 1,000,000 bytes.  This option is equivalent to
 @option{--block-size=si}.  Use the @option{-h} or
 @option{--human-readable} option if
M doc/ChangeLog
M doc/coreutils.texi
Committed as aac4a5f6d6e238d86130decbb92fd399010834d3