14Aug/090
What is the “total” in ls -l ?
Today I had a bit of a brain fart. I might run 'ls -l' in my terminal 100 times a day and today I'm looking the output and asked what is that "total" actually mean?
[dacaprice@fedora10 ~]$ ls -l
total 54752
drwxrwxr-x 2 dacaprice dacaprice 4096 2009-06-02 22:26 bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dacaprice dacaprice 291106 2007-12-13 21:03 a.html
Straight from gnu.org, "for each directory that is listed, preface the files with a line `total blocks', where blocks is the total disk allocation for all files in that directory."