file size problem

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi everyone

can you people please help me in the problem below

-bash-3.00$ ls -ltr abc abc.tar
-rw-r--r--   1 1hinaa2       17 Jan 17 14:09 abc
-rw-r--r--   1 1hinaa2      2048 Feb 17 07:03 abc.tar
-rw-r--r--   1 1hinaa2       135 Feb 17 07:03 abc.tar.gz

why this strange behaviour in the size of the file

2

Which OS ?

what output do you get with the following 2 commands ?
(the backslash is not a typo error)

\ls -ltr abc abc.tar

type ls

Are you root when entering your commands ?

3

hi
i am using the sun solaris system and the
command i used is

ls -ltr