Re: ls -s vs. du (was: Re: [dev] [st] font fallback)

From: Strake <strake888_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 09:02:09 -0500

On 06/01/2013, pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com> wrote:
> Didnt checked, but i guess that ls -s show size in bytes and du in block
> bytes, which depends on filesystem.

Nope. Both show size in blocks [1].

It seems proper to do so in ls alone, with a flag of whether to add
sizes of all files below; thus we could drop du. One may argue that
the job of ls is not to add sizes, but now we have 2 utilities what
list files, which loses.

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=(ls, du)
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