athityakumar/colorls

Target size from Symbolic link `ls -lH`

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#515 opened on Apr 14, 2022

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Description

Hi, I have a symbolic link to a target. Using ls -l symbolic_name I get the size of the symbolic link (small size). Using ls -lH symbolic_name I get the size of the target, the actual size in disk (big size). Colorls doesn't have -H option. Can you include in future versions?

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Research direction
Look for how colorls currently handles symbolic links and add support for the H flag to follow symlinks when displaying target file size.
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ruby
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