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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers ls command help, figures not matching up Post 302088487 by jopper on Tuesday 12th of September 2006 06:11:49 PM
Old 09-12-2006
ls command help, figures not matching up
Hello all.

I ran my AV app. and it scanned 600k+ files on my osx tiger powerpc laptop.
I went into terminal and ran ls -l */* on my applications folder.

for one entry it returned:

Snood3.0/:
total 17376
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ds admin 5152 Jan 17 2006 License30.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ds admin 226101 Jan 17 2006 Snood
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ds admin 15053 Jan 17 2006 Snood 3.0 ReadMe (text).txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ds admin 18429 Jan 17 2006 Snood 3.0 ReadMe.rtf
-rw-r--r-- 1 ds admin 352 Jan 18 2006 serial.rtf

I ran ls -l on its parent folder and got this result
drwxrwxrwx 8 ds admin 272 Jan 18 2006 Snood3.0
it shows 8 for the directories. There are 5 files + . & .. = 7 not 8?

1. What constitutes the "8" number if the total "directories" add up to 7?
2. What does the figure "total x" represent, in this case total 17376?
3. As stated above my computer has over 600k files. I'd like to identify which folders/apps contain the most files so I can trim this figure down. Is there a command to list all files of such folder? If in fact the above example includes 17k+ files and I only see 5 I'd like to be able discern the discrepancy between the two.

Thanks for any help
 

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NAME

       asadmin-list-admin-objects, list-admin-objects - gets all the administered objects

SYNOPSIS

       list-admin-objects  --user  admin_user [--password admin_password] [--host localhost] [--port 4848] [--secure|-s] [--passwordfile filename]
       [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--interactive=true]

       Lists all the administered objects. This command is supported in remote mode only.

OPTIONS

       --user		       authorized domain application server administrative username.

       --password	       password to administer the domain application server.

       --host		       machine name where the domain application server is running.

       --port		       port number of the domain application server listening for administration requests.

       --secure 	       if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain application server.

       --passwordfile	       file containing the domain application server password.

       --terse		       indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well-
			       formatted data for consumption by a script. Default is false.

       --echo		       setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. Default is false.

       --interactive	       if set to true (default), only the required password options are prompted.

       Example 1: Using list-admin-objects

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       Command list-admin-objects executed successfully

EXIT STATUS

       0		       command executed successfully

       1		       error in executing the command

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