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ls -l 1

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Stumpr

Stumpr

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Jan 2, 2004
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What does the first line returned from ls -l mean?
ls -l
"total 192"


Bob Stump
Just because the VERITAS documentation states something as certain, that does not make it a fact and that is truth.
 
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It usually means (on the UNIX systems I have here) the (approximate) size of the files in the directory in 512 byte blocks.

I hope that helps.

Mike

 
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thanx

Bob Stump
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