Re: Documentation question (correction?) for -ls: 1K vs 1 byte block size

2011-05-16 Thread Peggy Russell
> None of those examples show the block counts from ls ("ls -s"). Find > reports both the file size in bytes (column 7) and the blocks used > (column 2). They're reported the same in both ls and find: > > ~$ ls -dils TRACE.gz ; find TRACE.gz -ls ; stat TRACE.gz > 181286 36 -rw-r--r--. 1 james u

Re: Documentation question (correction?) for -ls: 1K vs 1 byte block size

2011-05-16 Thread James Youngman
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Peggy Russell wrote: > Hi, > > I came across something in the `find` documentation while trying GNU > commands with SI Decimal (--SI) and IEC Binary Prefixes (--human-readable). > > The ACTION `-ls` says it reports the size in 1K blocks. From reading the > info pag

Documentation question (correction?) for -ls: 1K vs 1 byte block size

2011-05-16 Thread Peggy Russell
Hi, I came across something in the `find` documentation while trying GNU commands with SI Decimal (--SI) and IEC Binary Prefixes (--human-readable). The ACTION `-ls` says it reports the size in 1K blocks. From reading the info page on "Block Size", it looks more like `find -ls` is reporting the

Re: Documentation question

2010-08-14 Thread James Youngman
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On 14 August 2010 16:46, Reuben Thomas wrote: >> On 4 August 2010 09:54, James Youngman wrote: >>> I'm not sure the two options need to be exclusive. >> >> Fair enough, especially as it's machine generated, so the maintenance >> problem I

Re: Documentation question

2010-08-14 Thread Bruno Haible
Reuben Thomas wrote: > gnulib people: you seem to be unhappy with code-generated > documentation. How would you like to proceed? It's OK to have documentation include pieces of the code if the extraction and update is done by us (the maintainers). What we would like to avoid is that people/distros

Re: Documentation question

2010-08-14 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 14 August 2010 16:46, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On 4 August 2010 09:54, James Youngman wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: >> >>> "in regexprops-generic.texi, I think that having a plain English >>> definition of the various syntaxes obscures the fact that each is >>>

Re: Documentation question

2010-08-14 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 4 August 2010 09:54, James Youngman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> "in regexprops-generic.texi, I think that having a plain English >> definition of the various syntaxes obscures the fact that each is >> defined as a strict combination of features. Would you

Re: Documentation question

2010-08-04 Thread James Youngman
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > I've volunteered to help get GNU regex documentation into gnulib. > Bruno Haible pointed me here because of one of my suggestions which > potentially affects findutils. I wrote: > > "in regexprops-generic.texi, I think that having a plain Engl

Documentation question

2010-08-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
I've volunteered to help get GNU regex documentation into gnulib. Bruno Haible pointed me here because of one of my suggestions which potentially affects findutils. I wrote: "in regexprops-generic.texi, I think that having a plain English definition of the various syntaxes obscures the fact that e