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Date:      Tue, 17 Aug 1999 20:51:42 +0300
From:      Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Explain the output of ls
Message-ID:  <37B9A12E.AFB05A35@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA>
References:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.990817131908.18730A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> 
> Could anyone tell me why the total number given by ls is 13 instead of 12?
> 

total is number of blocks, not number of files.

> > ls -al
> total 13
> drwxr-xr-x  6 zzhang  wheel   512 Aug 18 11:44 .
> drwxr-xr-x  5 zzhang  wheel   512 Aug 18 12:50 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 zzhang  wheel  4361 Aug 18 11:44 a.out
> -rw-r--r--  1 zzhang  wheel     0 Aug 18 09:48 emptyfile6
> drwxr-xr-x  2 zzhang  wheel   512 Aug 18 09:46 file1
> drwxr-xr-x  2 zzhang  wheel   512 Aug 18 09:46 file4
> prwxr-xr-x  2 zzhang  wheel     0 Aug 18 09:46 file5
> prwxr-xr-x  2 zzhang  wheel     0 Aug 18 09:46 file5link
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 zzhang  wheel    16 Aug 18 09:47 homedir -> /usr/home/zzhang
> drwxr-xr-x  2 zzhang  wheel   512 Aug 18 09:46 newfile3
> drwxr-xr-x  2 zzhang  wheel   512 Aug 18 09:47 newlongerfile2
> -rw-r--r--  1 zzhang  wheel  1613 Aug 18 11:44 opendir.c
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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