Making ls output more human readable for file size 1

[bazil2]

(Elementary user)

To check whether incoming data is 'growing' in size, I use the following command:

ls -ald my_file

The file size however is often quite large hence may have nine or ten positions, e.g.193788378

Is there a method of showing the size in megabytes or gigabytes?

Best regards

 

[feherke]

Hi

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-h, --human-readable

with -l, print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)​

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Feherke.
[link feherke.github.com/]

http://feherke.github.com/

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[bazil2]

Thank you so much, this works beautifully; I should have read the man page more thoroughly!

 

[SamBones]

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Sometimes just a few hours of trial and error debugging can save minutes of reading manuals.