athityakumar / athityakumar/colorls
Target size from Symbolic link `ls -lH`
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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
Start by locating colorls's command-line option parsing and the code that handles symbolic-link sizes, then compare its current -l behavior with the requested ls -lH behavior. Done means colorls accepts -H with -l and reports the target size for symbolic links, with coverage for that invocation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- ruby
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100