Human-readable ls output under AIX?

Question

How can I get human-readable ls output under AIX? There is no -h parameter

Solution 1

Might I suggest ls -ls?

That will provide the files sizes in KB instead of the default blocks.

Ex:

36 -rw-r--r--    1 oracle   dba           33875 Feb  2 2011  step2.log
32 -rw-r--r--    1 oracle   dba           30308 Feb  2 2011  step2.sql

Solution 2

You can use du. It does not have -h option, but it has -k -m and -g:

$ du -m /tmp/*

4.84    /tmp/diagSEgenSnap
33.12   /tmp/fwupdate

$ du -k /tmp/*

4952    /tmp/diagSEgenSnap
33920   /tmp/fwupdate

Solution 3

Try this

ls -l | awk '{$5=sprintf("%.9f GB", $5/1024^3)} 1'

Solution 4

I can't imagine this:

find -maxdepth 1 -ls

being the best solution, but I don't have an AIX. And do you have gnu-find on AIX? If not - I don't know how the output of other finds looks like.

This is gnu-find:

     4    7 drwxr-xr-x 115 stefan   stefan       6880 Aug 30 12:43 .
247530    0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 stefan   stefan         10 Mär 20  2010 ./u1 -> Ubuntu\ One
 45706    0 drwxr-xr-x   3 stefan   stefan         80 Mai 29  2010 ./.m2
  9352    0 drwxr-xr-x   3 stefan   stefan        168 Apr 20 16:26 ./.mc
 83653    0 drwxr-xr-x   2 stefan   stefan        120 Feb 19  2010 ./.qt
 82474    0 drwx------   2 stefan   stefan        128 Apr 27  2009 ./PDF
 18316   24 -rw-r--r--   1 stefan   stefan      21925 Aug 30 15:42 ./.scala_history
257889    4 -rw-------   1 stefan   stefan        230 Mär 18 06:30 ./.gtk-bookmarks
267759    4 -rw-r--r--   1 stefan   stefan        395 Jan  2  2011 ./brownies.txt

If you don't have any other option, an alias might be useful.

Solution 5

Colorized ls for AIX(with Perl). Works for most flavors of Unix too, like Sun etc.

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Comments

[n0pe]

What is there in the ls output that isn't human-readable?

[Steve-o]

To other readers: ls -lh converts sizes into kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes.