Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:25:18 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help clarify the '-l' option of ls(1). Message-ID: <200604121825.20985.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY107-F329581CF499F83C9C27406A6C20@phx.gbl> References: <BAY107-F329581CF499F83C9C27406A6C20@phx.gbl>
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On Wednesday 12 April 2006 16:47, David Robillard wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'd like to have an explication about the '-l' (minus L) option of the > ls(1) command. >... > Does anyone know any details about this 'number of links' ??? It's what it says on the tin; it's the number of links to the file. You get one link from the directory you are looking at, one from each hard link; and for a directory, one from the ".." link in each immediate sub-directory.
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