ls noob question. [Solved]

Sedrik · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:55 pm Post subject: ls noob question. [Solved]

I'm working on a OS course in school and we currently are investigating how ls works with listing directory and stuff (since we will implement our own OS in the end of the course) anyway one of the questions we have to answer is what does the number after Total mean when you type ls -l? We have read the man page but it is humoungus

Can't find where the information is stored.
By doing man ls | grep Total we are on the track that it is the Total number of blocks occupied by the files currently listed. is that assumption correct?

Thanks for the help.
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yoshi314 · l33t Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 850 Location: PL

just look for "-l" in the ls manpage .

total stands for total blocks, which represents total space occupied by files from that dir counted in 1024 byte blocks by default.

btw is "ls" an unsupported software?

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Sedrik · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:10 pm Post subject:

thanks

We checked -l but must have missed it.

Hmm maybe not, didn't know where to ask ^^
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