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?
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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
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Pedro Macedo
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