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| author | Stephane Chazelas <stephane@chazelas.org> | 2024-03-24 17:52:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2024-03-24 17:52:32 +0000 |
| commit | 7ebbeeb03dca4e2c5a9b25bfec9e84859ef35eef (patch) | |
| tree | 61dac7e31fbb7167146ac9352f2507486fa22692 | |
| parent | doc: remove older ChangeLog items (diff) | |
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doc: ls: detail output format for device files
* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): State that device numbers
are output, instead of file size.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 8a2104831..8f7f43ea0 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7968,6 +7968,10 @@ that it is a number rather than a textual name. Print question marks for other information that cannot be determined. +For block special files and character special files, the size field is +replaced by the corresponding device major and minor numbers as two decimal +numbers separated by a comma and at least one space. + Normally the size is printed as a byte count without punctuation, but this can be overridden (@pxref{Block size}). For example, @option{--human-readable} (@option{-h}) |