ls (is the result in bytes)

[OldSchool]

kb -> mb divide by 1024, not 1000

[OldSchool]

101367 / 1024 = 99.25488....

[Avinash20]

1 MB = 1024 Kb

[Patrick Wallek]

>>kb -> mb divide by 1024, not 1000

Technically speaking now, that is incorrect.

The terminology has been changed by the IEEE in 1998, though it is not common knowledge.

The KB, MB, GB, etc. values are now technically base 10 values. 1 GB = 1000 bytes, 1 MB = 1000 KB, 1 GB = 1000 MB.

The base 2 (binary) values that most of us are used to using are now technically the kibibyte (KiB), mebibyte (MiB), gibibyte (GiB), tebibyte (TiB), etc. So 1024 bytes = 1 KiB, 1024 KiB = 1 MiB, 1024 MiB = 1 GiB, etc.

For more information see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiB

[Avinash20]

So in that case,

# ls -l |awk '/^d/ {print $NF}'|xargs du -ks|awk '{printf "%6.2f %s\n",$1/1000,$2}'

will give the output in Mb
where
1MB = 1000Kb

Thanks to James and Patrick..

[OldSchool]

patrick: is was aware of the change, but as you noted its not common knowledge...so I used the more common usage....

as to the IEEE and the redefinition of KB, MB, and GB...IMHO, they should should have continued to use the old terminology w/ the old values, and used the new terminology w/ the "new" names (KiB, MiB....)....after all, "anything that changes form, fit or function requires a new part number"

but that's just me...and i'm grumpy

[Manuales]

THANKS A LOT ALL FOR YOUR GREAT HELP AND SUPPORT !!!!! HAVE A NICE WEEKEND :)

[Court Campbell]

This is a really long thread for a simple fix. You could just install coreutils.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/coreutils-7.1/

Then run ls from the coreutils bin directory with the -h (human-readbale) switch.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

> Court: This is a really long thread for a simple fix. You could just install coreutils.

Agreed, but then Manuales wouldn't have learned so much as he has :-}

Regards!

...JRF...

[OldSchool]

besides...it would start the whole issue w/ the math again. (although it appears it may use the "new" definitions)

from a linux "du" man page, regarding the "-h" or "--human-readable" option:

SIZE may be (or may be an integer optionally followed by) one of the following:

kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000,
M 1024*1024, and so on for....
G, T, P, E, Z, Y.

it's friday, it's getting late, and I don't want to think about Mib -vs- MB any more...