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by spikemc1968
Sun Jan 14, 2018 2:19 am
Forum: General programming discussion
Topic: ls question (I'm so embarassed..)
Replies: 2
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Re: ls question (I'm so embarassed..)

Thank you so much! It's all so clear now... I was in the /dev directory. Now I understand why some files had a "size" of zero (I was mistaking the minor device number for the file size).

Thanks again!
by spikemc1968
Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:24 am
Forum: General programming discussion
Topic: ls question (I'm so embarassed..)
Replies: 2
Views: 854

ls question (I'm so embarassed..)

Hi, I'm writing a script that uses the output from the "ls -l" command, and I'm seeing a column between the group and size fields that looks very useful, but I have no idea what it is! Can anyone tell me what the "250," field is in the output below? I checked the man page for ls and searched for a c...

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