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Originally Posted by MadeInGermany

You are certainly using /usr/ucb/ls
an old version of ls, only present to provide compatibility with the old SunOS 4, that was terminated 10 years ago (and in turn was compatible with 4.2 BSD Unix).
Use

Code:

ls -lo

Code:

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin ls -l

or both

Code:

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin ls -lo

or also set locale with

Code:

LC_ALL=C PATH=/bin:/usr/bin ls -lo

thank you!!!!

ls -lo seems to be perfect. not sure if it'll work on every UNIX hosts though. so far, i tested it on linux/sunos and it has the size of the file in the 4th column on both OSes. thank you!

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