athityakumar/colorls

Option for NOT human readable size - show file size in bytes

cmon1701 opened this issue · 5 comments

cmon1701 commented

Please add an Option for NOT human readable size - show file size in bytes. I want to compare the exact file sizes to see if some files differ at least in file size. Thanks!

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ayushpoddar commented

Interested! I'd like to take this up 🚀 @avdv

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avdv commented

Thank you, @ayushpoddar! I have assigned you this issue.

You could either introduce a --non-human-readable option, or properly implement --human-readable / -h which is currently just ignored. The latter being an incompatible change, but users could always define an alias to retain the old behavior.

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ayushpoddar commented

I think a --non-human-readable makes more sense because:

  • it is backwards compatible
  • In general, people are more interested in the human readable format. Not many users have raised this particular issue of not having a non-human readable format
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ayushpoddar commented

@avdv Can we please close this issue?

avdv commented

Closed by #589

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