number of links in ls -l

[ddrillich]

Good Day,

I'm looking at:

wpcms1 # ls -lt
total 12
drwxrwsr-x 2 vgnuser vgngroup 512 Feb 28 04:00 tedtasksworkingdir
drwxr-sr-x 32 root vgngroup 1024 Feb 26 23:41 prod2_staticfiles
drwxr-sr-x 4 root vgngroup 512 Feb 25 14:23 prod_staticfiles
drwxrwsr-x 22 vgnuser vgngroup 512 Feb 7 13:03 staticfiles
drwxrwsr-x 2 vgnuser vgngroup 512 Apr 19 2004 sgutil
drwxrwsr-x 2 vgnuser vgngroup 512 Jan 10 2003 templatezipfiles

I don't understand what the number of links means. i.e. 2,32,4 etc.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dan

 

[KenCunningham]

These are 'hard links' to the directory, generally related to the number of files in the directory below. If you do an ls -la | wc -l on one of these filesystems, it should return a number approximating to the links shown here.

 

[ddrillich]

Ken,

I did:
cd prod2_staticfiles
ls -la | wc -l

and got 35

So, I think I got it - it's the number of files in this directory.

Thanks,
Dan

 

[KenCunningham]

Sorry, yes. For filesystem above read directory. It was too early!!