From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 27 19:57:56 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A6516A419 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:57:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF6713C467 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:57:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a73so1867244pye for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:57:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=c9V6Oz/MPHZJc0ESosJ4EVShYbpURtmYxRgItu+CWus09JmxK1ndTQ4u2SH8UVXRu7boKkbMvP2mi5g5pmlWBw7cDlH8eyAC66cGvfWVTjnsp7rFeY674x6j1P9oa4qAuU3eqqyOBZhKnBYrW0Lpa+5dwNtg1w+TYHu3VnqUrpY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=GNSMEulfJz3WjJ/FLvQFo/TP0NcRV2TESePzUvkvEc9cbEAmPVHCKK682Wdcql1y31gpMX3YOam3bbnveNotI/K9NJUgbM9UYuTVlFkvJbK/1SQ7WTts5L5KMLW3IVIxYk/p5akeOh9+yl+aw0mWQeu+RCUCfFr4tejlnwROqlk= Received: by 10.35.75.15 with SMTP id c15mr13824721pyl.1185566274467; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:57:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.17.4 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:57:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <340a29540707271257h69c89189w10917672cac7f3db@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:57:54 -0600 From: "Andrew Falanga" To: "User Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: The output of ls X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:57:56 -0000 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? Andy