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Old 06-24-2011
What does total mean in ls -l output?
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# ls -l | more
total 12861
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         512 Jun 20 21:57 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         512 Oct 16  2010 Documents
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           9 Oct 16  2010 bin -> ./usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x   7 root     sys          512 Oct 16  2010 boot
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     nobody       512 May 29 11:25 cdrom
-rw-------   1 root     root     6394517 Jun  2 21:42 core
drwxr-xr-x  19 root     sys         4608 Jun 23 22:32 dev
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Jun 21 22:12 devices
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         512 Nov 29  2010 dummy
drwxr-xr-x  87 root     sys         4608 Jun 23 19:26 etc
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Oct 16  2010 export
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         512 Jun 24 11:24 hi
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root     root           1 Jun 21 22:12 home
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root           0 Jun 23 21:35 imqadmin.c
drwxr-xr-x  18 root     sys          512 Oct 16  2010 kernel
drwxr-xr-x   8 root     bin         5632 Oct 16  2010 lib
drwx------   2 root     root        8192 Oct 16  2010 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 May 29 11:29 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         512 Jun 19 22:32 mydir
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root     root           1 Jun 21 22:12 net
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         512 Oct 26  2010 newpartion

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Old 06-24-2011
https://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-ex...l-command.html
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Old 06-24-2011
but i could not understand it.. can some one explain in simple way.. with some simple example. and also i would like to know how this total value would be helpful to us???
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