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Old 09-01-2007
ravi raj kumar ravi raj kumar is offline
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ls command

Hi,
When we use "ls -l" command,at the top of the resulting list "Total" will be diaplayed.
I would like to know what is the meaning of 'Total'.(i.e whether it is total number of files or total number of bytes or some thing else?).

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RRK