#361787 ls -h uses wrong specifiers

Package:
coreutils
Source:
coreutils
Description:
GNU core utilities
Submitter:
Bas Zoetekouw
Date:
2021-09-22 04:43:55 UTC
Severity:
minor
#361787#5
Date:
2006-04-10 10:05:30 UTC
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The size display of ls -h currently uses "K" to mean "kilo":

| -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 75K 2004-07-16 13:37 /bin/ls

However, the correct abbriviation for "kilo" is a lower case "k".

It almost looks like it's using "K" as an abbreviation for "Ki"
(kibi), as a lowercase "k" is used when --si is specified:

| -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 76k 2004-07-16 13:37 /bin/ls

That is even more confusing, as the other abbrivations (M, G, T, etc),
do not change when --si is specified.  Please consider using the
correct abbriviations everywhere (i.e. Ki, Mi, etc without --si, k, M,
G with --si), like (for example) ifconfig does nowadays.
#361787#10
Date:
2021-05-18 06:23:34 UTC
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#361787#15
Date:
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