Re: ls command and large files

Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:34:02 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.fileutils.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

"Lone Star Software Corp." <[email protected]> wrote:
> `ls` seems to incorrectly report the size of large files.  The file
> tested should be a 2.9Gig file.
>
> - ls version from man page output
>        ls (fileutils) 4.1                                  March 2002

Thanks for the report.
That's been fixed for quite some time.
fileutils is too old.  You need a newer version.

STABLE
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2
  (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)

BETA
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.gz
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.bz2