ls question

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

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.  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.  I
>was wondering if there was any way I could do that with ls.  I know that
>with nautilus you can do a Cntrl-A to select all the files in the
>directory you're currently viewing and the total byte size will be shown
>in the status bar, but is there a way to find out from a terminal
>window?
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Well , I dont know how to show the total of the files listed , for 
example , if you do ls *.zip ... But you can have the same behaviour as 
the DOS dir command (except for the total values , as I said before), 
using ls -la . And to show the size of the folder , du -sh foldername ...

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Pedro Macedo