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From: Tuxedo on 18 Oct 2009 13:27
Usually, FreeBSD systems do not recognise the -h flag for the ls command,
at least not those I 've been exposed to. Does anyone here know how to get
the result of ls -lh on a FreeBSD? Stupid question I know; I mean many
people on this group surely know how it is easily done. I guess by sort?

Any examples would be appreciated.

Many thanks in advance!
Tuxedo

From: Allodoxaphobia on 18 Oct 2009 13:56
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:27:19 +0200, Tuxedo wrote:
> Usually, FreeBSD systems do not recognise the -h flag for the ls command,
> at least not those I 've been exposed to. Does anyone here know how to get
> the result of ls -lh on a FreeBSD? Stupid question I know; I mean many
> people on this group surely know how it is easily done. I guess by sort?
>
> Any examples would be appreciated.

huh? What do you mean by "Usually"?

$ uname -a
FreeBSD shell.example.com 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0:
Fri Oct 2 12:21:39 UTC 2009
$ ls -lh
total 56
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 1.1K Oct 7 16:27 SLRN7B6A2814.0
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 1.2K Oct 7 16:27 SLRN7B6A2814.0.save
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 103B Oct 16 07:49 body.sxm
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 92B Oct 7 16:27 body.tmp
drwx------ 2 bonz bonz 512B Oct 7 16:27 dist/
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 0B Oct 18 11:05 loginfetch
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 163B Oct 18 11:15 newfetch
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 5.0K Oct 16 19:41 news.sxm
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 3.9K Oct 7 16:27 news.tmp
drwx------ 2 bonz bonz 512B Oct 7 16:27 ng_lists/
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 738B Oct 8 19:41 pico.24434.bak
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 4.2K Oct 17 15:21 pico.41973.bak
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 2.8K Oct 18 11:05 pmlogrotate.log
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 25B Oct 18 11:05 rslt.sxm
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 27B Oct 7 16:27 rslt.tmp
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 2.9K Oct 18 11:05 spamrotate.log
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 30B Oct 16 07:49 subj.sxm
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 30B Oct 7 16:27 subj.tmp
drwx------ 3 bonz bonz 512B Oct 7 16:27 work/
-rw------- 1 bonz bonz 2.8K Oct 17 12:11 z_ng_posts

Jonesy
From: Kaz Kylheku on 18 Oct 2009 14:23
On 2009-10-18, Tuxedo <tuxedo(a)mailinator.com> wrote:
> Usually, FreeBSD systems do not recognise the -h flag for the ls command,
> at least not those I 've been exposed to. Does anyone here know how to get
> the result of ls -lh on a FreeBSD?

Yes. Compile and install GNU coreutils. :)
From: Tuxedo on 18 Oct 2009 15:48
Allodoxaphobia wrote:

[..]

> huh? What do you mean by "Usually"?

"Usually" just refers to various servers I'm using. But as the next
post by Kaz Kylheku reveals, I apparently need GNU coreutils which must be
missing from my system. Alternatively I need a later FreeBSD. My uname -a
reveals I have a 4.8-RELEASE which sounds way older than yours!

>
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD shell.example.com 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0:
> Fri Oct 2 12:21:39 UTC 2009
> $ ls -lh
> total 56
> -rw------- 1 bonz bonz 1.1K Oct 7 16:27 SLRN7B6A2814.0

[..]
From: Chris F.A. Johnson on 18 Oct 2009 17:18
On 2009-10-18, Tuxedo wrote:
> Allodoxaphobia wrote:
>
> [..]
>
>> huh? What do you mean by "Usually"?
>
> "Usually" just refers to various servers I'm using. But as the next
> post by Kaz Kylheku reveals, I apparently need GNU coreutils which must be
> missing from my system. Alternatively I need a later FreeBSD. My uname -a
> reveals I have a 4.8-RELEASE which sounds way older than yours!
>
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> FreeBSD shell.example.com 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0:
>> Fri Oct 2 12:21:39 UTC 2009
>> $ ls -lh
>> total 56
>> -rw------- 1 bonz bonz 1.1K Oct 7 16:27 SLRN7B6A2814.0
>
> [..]

In both the 4.8 and 7.1 releases I use, the -h option is supported
by the FreeBSD version of ls.


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