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Profile question

Adam W. — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:12:13 GMT

How would one go about setting his profile, so that when the command ll was ran, it would show in megs instead of bytes? Is this easily possible?

Re: Profile question

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:26:12 GMT

Hi Adam:

I assume that you mean Bill Hassell's 'bdf' script?

Regardless, you can create an 'alias' in your '.profile' as for example:

...
alias cp='cp -ip'
alias du='du -k'
alias bdf='/usr/local/bin/bdfmegs.sh'
...

See Bill's latest here:

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1291639

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Profile question

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:32:00 GMT

That is not easily done. You would have to create your own 'll'. The HP-UX 'ls' program does not have an option to output size in MB.

Re: Profile question

Autocross.US — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:33:08 GMT

ll doesn't support output in megabytes by default. You'd have to create a script to display the output in megabytes, then create an alias in your .profile to the script.

Re: Profile question

Adam W. — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:41:15 GMT

I thought so, but I though maybe some of the gods/powers that be, would know an easier way. Thanks everyone.

Re: Profile question

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:45:42 GMT

Hi (again) Adam:

Oh, if you mean the output of 'ls' a crude but simple solution might be:

# cat /usr/local/bin/myls
#!/usr/bin/sh
ls -l | awk '{$5=(sprintf "%2.2f",$5/1024/1024);print}'

Now, in your '.profile':

alias ls='/usr/local/bin/myls'

...The format is preserved and the output calculated in MB.

Regards!

...JRF...