Total in ls -la

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 11:16 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hello guys,
> I'm curious when we do 'ls -la', what does 'total' mean? Is it the amount of 
> directory, files, or else?
> 
> Example:
> pwd
> /tmp/testls/dir1
> 
> ls -la
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 fajar users 4096 2006-11-06 11:12 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 fajar users 4096 2006-11-06 11:12 ..
> 
> What 'total 8' stands for?
> Thank you very much.

That is the size of the directory and its contents in kB.  It is
displayed with all 'ls' output using the -l flag.

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