Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:04:13 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The output of ls Message-ID: <20070727200413.GA48670@rot26.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <340a29540707271257h69c89189w10917672cac7f3db@mail.gmail.com> References: <340a29540707271257h69c89189w10917672cac7f3db@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 01:57:54PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering what the output means when one does an "ls -lR". Here's
> some sample output from my home dir:
>
> ./programs:
> total 900
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 afalanga afalanga 5467 Sep 25 2006 4or6
> -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 606 Dec 20 2006 abc.cxx
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 afalanga afalanga 8436 Dec 20 2006 abs
> -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 970 Dec 12 2006 bindtest.c
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 afalanga afalanga 5666 Dec 12 2006 bt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 654 Jun 5 08:12 filetest.cxx
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 afalanga afalanga 5223 Nov 16 2006 foo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 397 Nov 16 2006 foo.c
> -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 502 May 25 07:20 foo.cxx
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 afalanga afalanga 8733 May 25 07:20 foocxx
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 afalanga afalanga 9359 Jun 5 08:12 ft
> -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 172 Dec 20 2006 negtest.cxx
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 afalanga afalanga 6986 Dec 20 2006 nt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 100 Nov 16 2006 obj.c
> -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 796 Nov 16 2006 obj.o
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 afalanga afalanga 6316 May 23 10:43 td
> -rw------- 1 afalanga afalanga 327680 May 23 10:22 td.core
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root afalanga 5552 Jul 26 2006 test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 1267 May 23 10:43 test.c
> -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 407 Jan 10 2007 test.cxx
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 afalanga afalanga 8760 Jan 10 2007 testc
> -rw------- 1 afalanga afalanga 430080 Jan 3 2007 testc.core
> -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 100 Jun 5 07:45 testtest.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 185 Dec 15 2006 timetest.cxx
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 afalanga afalanga 7008 Dec 15 2006 tt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 1142 Sep 25 2006 v6.c
> -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 67 Jan 5 2007 willitwork
>
> ./scripts:
> total 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 970 Oct 12 2006 newtables.sql
> -rwxr--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 1777 Jun 1 10:59 test.tcl
>
>
> Right underneath the directory that is being probed at that point is a
> number, "total X". What is X referring to? Is it blocks, bytes,
> what?
RTFM ;-)
The listing of a directory's contents is preceded by a labeled total num-
ber of blocks used in the file system by the files which are listed as
the directory's contents (which may or may not include . and .. and other
files which start with a dot, depending on other options).
Kris
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