I like this code; it works great for me.

One drawback is that when I use it for "ls -l" output as suggested, the year is commified as well as the file size. (For my older files, obviously). This then tends to mess up the column alignment, which the author had intended to preserve.

total 6,592
drwxr-xr-x   2 kromk    apbr         118,784 Jun 29  1,998 DSC/
-rwxr-xr-x   1 kromk    apbr           7,597 Oct 31 16:25 KEAVT.KTC*
drwxr-xr-x   7 kromk    apbr           4,096 Oct 17  1,999 archive/
drwxr-xr-x   6 kromk    apbr           4,096 Aug  7  2,000 backup/
drwxr-xr-x  46 kromk    apbr           8,192 Mar  7 14:03 build/
drwxr-xr-x   9 kromk    apbr          16,384 Mar  8 17:28 download/

[download]

Goes to show that you can't have everything...

buckaduck

In reply to Re: Add coma to numbers, a bit better by buckaduck
in thread Add commas to numbers, a bit better by fundflow

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