[SUMMARY] 'ls -l' question

From: Vejux Florent <vejux_at_altair.u-bourgogne.fr>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:30:39 +0100

Hello all! :)

I previously wrote:
> I d like to know what indicate the nummber just after the word total
> when we do 'ls -l'?
> Here is an example:
> altair.u-bourgogne.fr> ls -l
> total 20
> -rw------- 1 vejux prof 6069 Nov 24 09:50 Notes
> drwx------ 6 vejux prof 512 Oct 20 10:21 TRAVAUX
> -rw------- 1 vejux prof 7822 Oct 13 09:17
> alpha_mailing_list.txt
> drwxr-x--- 2 vejux prof 512 Nov 24 09:22 bin
> d--------- 2 vejux prof 512 Nov 5 17:47 core
> -rw------- 1 vejux prof 209 Nov 24 16:59 dead.letter
> drwx------ 2 vejux prof 512 Nov 26 10:41 nsmail
> drwx------ 2 vejux prof 512 Nov 26 11:08 temp
> ====> what is the meaning of 20??
>

        It seems that it is the number of blocks use by the files in the
present directory


Florent VEJUX
IUT de Dijon
Received on Thu Nov 26 1998 - 12:30:21 NZDT

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