ls question

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 17:06 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I've only been using Linux for about a year now (actually it's a year
> this month).  My first computer was an IBM 8086 clone with MS-DOS 2.0. 
> I liked MS-DOS a lot better than MSWindows because if something went
> wrong, the problem was a lot easier to find:  all the files needed for a
> single application were all kept in the same directory, etc.

And in Fedora Core, you usually just type:
  rpm -ql mozilla

>   Anyway, in
> MS-DOS, when you ask for a directory listing, it listed the files in the
> directory you were asking for (like ls), but it also gave a listing of
> the total bytes contained in the files in the listing you asked for.

Try typing:
   ls -laF

(hint: read the man luke....     type:  man ls)

Welcome... to the real world :)

Rui

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