ls question

Pedro Fernandes Macedo webmaster at margo.bijoux.nom.br
Wed Jul 21 22:24:52 UTC 2004


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?
>
>
>  
>
Btw , I forgot to mention something.. There's a tutorial called From 
DOS/Windows to linux... It may be usefull to you..
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html

--
Pedro Macedo





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