

Other policy developments Recognition of professional qualifications in practice In May 2020 the Commission published a report on the implementation of certain new elements introduced by Directive 2013/55/EU and an accompanying staff working document. The directive provides a modern EU system of recognition of professional experience and promotes automatic recognition of professional experience across the EU. Thanks to kojiro for pointing this out.The system of recognition of professional qualifications in the EU is governed by Directive 2005/36/EC, recently amended by Directive 2013/55/EU. The ls from GNU Coreutils 8.5 does support -block-size and -h as described above. Note that both -block-size and -h are GNU extensions on top of the Open Group's ls, so this may not work if you don't have a GNU userland (which most Linux installations do). It allows for units other than MB/MiB as well, and from the looks of it (I didn't try that) arbitrary block sizes as well (so you could see the file size as a number of 429-byte blocks if you want to). The -block-size parameter is described in the man page for ls man ls and search for SIZE. This will use units of file size to keep file sizes presented with about 1-3 digits (so you'll see file sizes like 6.1K, 151K, 7.1M, 15M, 1.5G and so on.

If you simply want file sizes in "reasonable" units, rather than specifically megabytes, then you can use -lh to get a long format listing and human readable file size presentation. Thanks Stéphane Chazelas for suggesting this. If you don't want the M suffix attached to the file size, you can use something like -block-size=1M. If you want MB (10^6 bytes) rather than MiB (2^20 bytes) units, use -block-size=MB instead. Ls -l -block-size=M will give you a long format listing (needed to actually see the file size) and round file sizes up to the nearest MiB.
