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Re: ls -l output

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Subject: Re: ls -l output
From: Lokesh Setia <lsetia78@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06 Jun 2001 22:07:19 +0530
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>>>>> "sanjay" == sanjay singh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    sanjay> but, I am talking about the output displayed for the
    sanjay> directory ls -ld q

    sanjay> drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 18432 Apr 16 19:34 q

The '12' means that there are 12 entities which have an entry for q.
Since each directory has a '.' and '..' entry, we have:

1 entry that comes from the parent directory of q.
1 entry that comes from q itself (because it contains '.')
and thus, there are 10 subdirectories in q (they all contain '..')

Hope I made it clear.

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- Re: ls -l output
  - From: Chandresh Pant
- Re: ls -l output
  - From: sanjay singh

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