Re: [cobalt-users] ls command

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Filiberto Ricci wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> [root /etc]# ls -alg
> total 1045
> drwxr-xr-x  36 root     root         3072 Mar 28 23:58 .
> drwxr-xr-x  16 root     root         1024 Mar 22 18:35 ..
> ....
> 
> First question
> What's "total 1045"?
> I thought it was the number of files listed (in this case the number in /etc
> directory) but the output doesnt match  that number.

Nope, it's the number of disk blocks used ...

> 
> Second question
> In the output of "ls -alg /etc" there is not a file Muttrc,
> but if I try:
> [root /etc]# find / -name Muttrc
> find: /proc/6/fd: Permission denied
> find: /proc/1452/fd: Permission denied
> /etc/Muttrc
> [root /etc]# locate Muttrc
> /etc/Muttrc
> 
> My supposition was that ls was corrupted, but
> [root /etc]# rpm -V fileutils-4.0-1_C1
> [root /etc]#
> 
> gave me no result.

You may have more than one 'ls' in your path, you could have a good one
where rpm put it, which will check out fine, and another bogus one
elsewhere that you are actually running...

'type ls' will show you where the one you are running is...

This will show you every possible ls in your path, but not aliases

for p in `echo $PATH|tr ':' ' '`;do echo $p/ls;done


also try: cd /etc;echo *


gsh