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Old 05-25-2010
ls -l displays size in KB, MB, GB?

Hi,

ls -l displays the long listing of a file in 8 fields.

Query:
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Does ls -l display the filename size in KB or MB or GB?

-rwxrwxr-x 1 xx dba 655 May 22 06:27 time

Here 655 is KB or MB or GB?

Many thanks.
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Old 05-25-2010
Bytes.

---------- Post updated at 13:09 ---------- Previous update was at 13:06 ----------

BTW. Having an executable file called "time" is not a good idea. It is the name of a unix command.
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Old 05-25-2010
There is no "-h" option in unix "ls". Some Linux variants have it.
 
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