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# 1  
Old 02-17-2011
file size problem
Hi everyone

can you people please help me in the problem below

Code:
-bash-3.00$ ls -ltr abc abc.tar
-rw-r--r--   1 1hinaa2       17 Jan 17 14:09 abc
-rw-r--r--   1 1hinaa2      2048 Feb 17 07:03 abc.tar
-rw-r--r--   1 1hinaa2       135 Feb 17 07:03 abc.tar.gz



why this strange behaviour in the size of the file
Last edited by Franklin52; 02-17-2011 at 03:54 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
# 2  
Old 02-17-2011
Which OS ?

what output do you get with the following 2 commands ?
(the backslash is not a typo error)
Code:
\ls -ltr abc abc.tar

Code:
type ls

Are you root when entering your commands ?
# 3  
Old 02-17-2011
hi
i am using the sun solaris system and the
command i used is

ls -ltr
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