POSIX says: If any of the -l, -n, -s options is specified, each list of files within the directory shall be preceded by a status line indicating the number of file system blocks occupied by files in the directory in 512-byte units if the -k option is not specified, or 1024-byte units if the -k option is specified, rounded up to the next integral number of units, if necessary. In the POSIX locale, the format shall be:
"total %u\n", <number of units in the directory> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ls.html HTH Johannes On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 07:46:17PM +0200, Jörgen Overgaard wrote: > Yes it will be doing a 'du' job. > > I do not know if that is some BSD or GNU extension. > All I know, is that the application I was trying to get running under > BusyBox, expected 'ls -l' to return the total stuff. > Also in the source for ls.c it says > > * KNOWN BUGS: > * 1. ls -l of a directory doesn't give "total <blocks>" header > > So I decided to "fix" that and put that patch on the mailing list. > > Wrong or right? I do not know. I am used to see that total header > when telling ls to do a long list format but never use it my self. > > Perhaps remove that BUG notice in the source of ls.c? > Or make it optional during compile to support totals or not from > configure? -DLS_LONG_WITH_TOTAL ;-) > > Regards > Jorgen Overgaard > > Cathey, Jim skrev: > >> I had some software that used ls -l and expected the total blocks > >> to be on the first line of the output from ls. > > > > That's a new one on me. Is that some kind of BSD > > or GNU extension? I'm not really in favor of it > > doing a 'du' job as well. > > > > -- Jim > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > busybox mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox > > > > __________ NOD32 4473 (20091001) Information __________ > > > > Detta meddelande är genomsökt av NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.nod32.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > busybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox > _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
