Add option to output file size and date/times in a machine readable format#139
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Add option to output file size and date/times in a machine readable format#139athena-metis wants to merge 2 commits intodropbox:masterfrom
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The usual command flag would be -h to make it human readable but as this is already the default behaviour implementing it in this way would require a change to existing functionality that others may rely on. This change is to add a slightly less conventional switch to allow the output to be more friendly to integrating with scripts.
The change allows for a -m / --machine flag for rev/search/ls commands which will output the file size in bytes and the date in a standard format rather than "X hours ago" etc. This allows for use in scripts where you want to compare a file size or check the modified date (separate PR for maintaining this when uploading via the put command)
The -m / --machine switch implies -l / --long as the standard ls output doesn't include any humanised information anyway.
Existing long output