the command "ls -l"

[Hogue, Russ]

d - is a directory
c - is a character special file (this file is read or write one character at a time)
b - is a block special file (this file is read or write a block at a time)
 
Both the "c" and the "b" file types are usually used for referencing hardware or devices.
 
A regular file is denoted by a "-" as the first character.
 
Russ

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Subject: the command "ls -l"



the command "ls -l" shows many things along with the file name, time
stamp......etc. we see something similar to
-rwxrwxr--  3 root root 345 sep 20 2004 20:23 am test
brwxrwxr--
crwxrwxr--
drwxrwxr--
here what d, c, b denote. moreover what 3 stands for
same command in the directory dev shows different
-rwxrwxr--  3 root root 13, 345 sep 20 2004 20:23 am test
-rwxrwxr--  3 root root 27, 3456 sep 20 2004 20:23 am test
here what does 13 and 27 show....?

Yagnesh Gajjar
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