From 98e876d78349f2a18c5a6420dc3215483b3ed42f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:38:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (Block size): Document new envvar BLOCKSIZE. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 83815275c3..d4cb3ad73e 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -751,6 +751,7 @@ used for display is independent of any filesystem block size. Fractional block counts are rounded up to the nearest integer. @opindex --block-size=@var{size} +@vindex BLOCKSIZE @vindex BLOCK_SIZE @vindex DF_BLOCK_SIZE @vindex DU_BLOCK_SIZE @@ -771,9 +772,18 @@ Similarly, @env{DU_BLOCK_SIZE} specifies the default for @command{du} and This specifies the default block size for all three commands, if the above command-specific environment variables are not set. +@item BLOCKSIZE +This specifies the default block size for all values that are normally +printed as blocks, if neither @env{BLOCK_SIZE} nor the above +command-specific environment variables are set. Unlike the other +environment variables, @env{BLOCKSIZE} does not affect values that are +normally printed as byte counts, e.g., the file sizes contained in +@code{ls -l} output. + @item POSIXLY_CORRECT -If neither the @env{@var{command}_BLOCK_SIZE} nor the @env{BLOCK_SIZE} -variables are set, but this variable is set, the block size defaults to 512. +If neither @env{@var{command}_BLOCK_SIZE}, nor @env{BLOCK_SIZE}, nor +@env{BLOCKSIZE} is set, but this variable is set, the block size +defaults to 512. @end table -- 2.47.2