Units

pls can show the sizes of files in three unit systems.

• binary, which uses higher powers of 2 such as 2¹⁰ as kibi (Ki), 2²⁰ as mibi (Mi) etc.
• decimal, which users higher powers of 10 such as 10³ as kilo (k), 10⁶ as mega (M) etc.
• none, which lists the exact number of bytes (B) as is.

Arguments

--unit/-u can be used to set the unit system to use. pls uses the binary unit system by default.

Caution

This flag has no effect unless the detail view contains the size field with --det=size/-D=size.

Examples

pls --det=size # or --unit=binary or --u=binary

   Size Name
1.0 MiB    a
1.0 MiB    b
1.0 MiB    c

pls --det=size --unit=decimal # or --u=decimal

  Size Name
1.0 MB    a
1.0 MB    b
1.0 MB    c

pls --det=size --unit=none # or --u=binary

     Size Name
1048589 B    a
1048589 B    b
1048589 B    c

Configuration

Using the configuration system, you can modify the appearance of size magnitude, prefix and base unit.

See the detail view configuration for an example.