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ls -l

total 36

-rwxrwxr-x 1 vips vips 8776 Jan 11 20:56 a.out    
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vips vips   52 Jan 11 21:44 filemk.sh    
drwxrwxr-x 2 vips vips 4096 Jan 11 22:14 hello    
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vips vips 7174 Jan 11 09:23 installation.txt    
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vips vips  928 Jan 11 22:26 linux_Commands    
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vips vips  142 Jan 11 20:56 prog1.c

What does total indicate?
Somewhere I read that it shows the number of blocks, but the number of blocks in my case is 1+1+2+1+1+1 = 7 .

Then what is it?

pomsky
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  • The number you are referring to is the number of hard links for that file. – Stefan Hamcke Jan 11 '18 at 17:20
  • are u sure ? i have executed ls from desktop so according to your answer does that mean 36 hard links to desktop? am I guessing corrcectly or it means something else – vipul jadhav Jan 11 '18 at 17:26
  • I just looked it up in info ls under What information is listed, and it says number of hard links. I'm actually wondering myself why some of the directories in my home folder have so many hard links. – Stefan Hamcke Jan 11 '18 at 17:33
  • I just found https://askubuntu.com/questions/510880/why-does-directory-contain-2-hard-links, which explains that the hard link come from the subdirectories. – Stefan Hamcke Jan 11 '18 at 17:39

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