Re: [newbie] Output of 'ls -l ...'

2004-12-19 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 9:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I do ,e.g., > > $ ls -l / > > , I get: > > total 52 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 18 13:44 bin/ > what about the numbers that appears in the second and in the > fifth column? What's their meaning? As care free said, the secon

RE: [newbie] Output of 'ls -l ...'

2004-12-18 Thread care free
Do a google search and you will see the info for yourself. But I'll include an explanation from http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/unix/ls-l.html. If you would like more information about each file, use the -l option. Here is an example: % ls -l total 3 -rw-rw-rw- 1 john 16593