ls command

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,
When we use "ls -l" command,at the top of the resulting list "Total" will be diaplayed.
I would like to know what is the meaning of 'Total'.(i.e whether it is total number of files or total number of bytes or some thing else?).

cheers
RRK

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Total number of blocks used by the directory.

Cheers,
K

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Also, try "ls -lh". The "h", "with -l, print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)". That's in man ls.