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ls -l

total 36

-rwxrwxr-x 1 vips vips 8776 Jan 11 20:56 a.out    
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vips vips   52 Jan 11 21:44 filemk.sh    
drwxrwxr-x 2 vips vips 4096 Jan 11 22:14 hello    
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vips vips 7174 Jan 11 09:23 installation.txt    
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vips vips  928 Jan 11 22:26 linux_Commands    
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vips vips  142 Jan 11 20:56 prog1.c

What does total indicate?
Somewhere I read that it shows the number of blocks, but the number of blocks in my case is 1+1+2+1+1+1 = 7 .

Then what is it?

pomsky
  • 67,112
  • 21
  • 233
  • 243
vipul jadhav
  • 106
  • 1
  • 1
  • 9
  • The number you are referring to is the number of hard links for that file. – Stefan Hamcke Jan 11 '18 at 17:20
  • are u sure ? i have executed ls from desktop so according to your answer does that mean 36 hard links to desktop? am I guessing corrcectly or it means something else – vipul jadhav Jan 11 '18 at 17:26
  • I just looked it up in `info ls` under `What information is listed`, and it says number of hard links. I'm actually wondering myself why some of the directories in my home folder have so many hard links. – Stefan Hamcke Jan 11 '18 at 17:33
  • I just found https://askubuntu.com/questions/510880/why-does-directory-contain-2-hard-links, which explains that the hard link come from the subdirectories. – Stefan Hamcke Jan 11 '18 at 17:39

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