On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:12, Andy Lee <ag...@mac.com> wrote: > On Dec 27, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Arno Hautala wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 08:46, David Herren <da...@idiomatrix.com> wrote: >>> >>> Santiago:.Trash dherren$ ls -al >>> total 8 >>> drwxr-x--- 3 dherren staff 102 Dec 27 08:39 . >>> drwxr-xr-x 22 dherren staff 748 Dec 20 08:35 .. >>> -rw-r--r--@ 1 dherren staff 4 Dec 27 08:38 test.txt > > Odd that ls -a indicates 8 files but lists only 3. Is it possible for files > to be hidden in a way that explains this? I know there are ways to make > files hidden other than making them dot files.
The "total 8" refers to the block count, not the file count. > -l (The lowercase letter ``ell''.) List in long format. (See > below.) > If the output is to a terminal, a total sum for all the file > sizes is > output on a line before the long listing. If you have the GNU version of ls you can use "ls -lah" (provided as gls by MacPorts in coreutils) and the total will be listed in human readable format -- arno s hautala /-| a...@alum.wpi.edu pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
