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Why does ls -l output a different size from ls -s?

I can't figure out why I'm getting the following results: ls -l tells me the size of a given file (HISTORY) is "581944": $ ls -l HISTORY -rw-rw-r-- 1 waldir waldir 581944 Feb 22 10:59 HISTORY ls ...
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Bash command: ls -lah not showing /etc directory?

Ok guys, elementary question. I was poking around my server, and I noticed that when I 'ls' the / directory, /etc folder is not displayed. Why is that? I can very easily cd into it, but why is it ...
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Colorize hardlinks in ls output?

How can I colorize hardlinks myself? Turns out on an old Ubuntu 10.04 I have, this happens by default (same .bashrc and .profile in use), whereas on the newer Ubuntu 12.04 it doesn't. This is the ...
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How to move multiple files at once to a specific destination directory?

I got a bunch of files in some directory (along with many other files) that I want to move. Luckily, all the files I want to move contain a certain identifier in their names, so I can ls | grep ...
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What does the l command do?

There is a command l available on my machine which appears to do nothing. which l also produces no output. Is this a real command, and does it actually do anything?
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Right way to colorize ls?

Sometimes ago, I used Ubuntu and had colorized ls, grep "out of the box". Now I install KUbuntu and ls is plain text by default. I tried to discover something about it and notice that there is ...
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Why are “ls” and “stat” returning different ownerships for the same object?

This is in a continuation of question here I run this command as root user chown someuser:someuser /mnt/my-address and then # ls -l /mnt/my-address response is total 16 drwx------ 2 root root ...
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Can I change the default of “block-size” in commands?

Several commands use --block-size 1K as the default and I find myself counting numbers. Is there a way to automatically and permanently change the block-size of commands like du,ls,df to greater ...
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Difference between 'dir' and 'ls' terminal commands?

I've been trying to find the difference between using the dir and ls commands in terminal. I know ls is the traditional unix method of viewing the files in a directory, and that dir is the windows ...
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How to find all PDF files in directories and their subdirectories?

I want to list all PDF files in the directories of the current working directory. What command can do this? I remember a combination of ls and */*.pdf but don't remember what exact combination.
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automatically run ls after changing path using autocd

So everytime I change the directory I would like the new path to automatically get listed with ls.There are solutions if the path gets changed using cd but I never found a solution that would work ...
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Is there a way to do a ' ls -R | grep “aname”* | rm; to remove multiple files in multiple directory

I have installed (compiled) emerald. The command make uninstall didn't work (there is no makefile as it is just a script). So I decided to remove the file manually. But there were a lot of files. ...
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subshell ls -lh “$(find /music -type d)” doesn't return list, instead results of find command

I'm trying to list the details of all the directories in my music folder using the following command: ls -lh "$(find /music -type d)" However all I get is the return of the find command. Is this ...
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How do you get details from the output of the locate command?

When I run the ls -l command I get details about the files in the current directory like permissions, owner, group, file size. Is there a way I can get these same details instead of just the ...
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How can I direct a pipe input to ls command?

When I type sth. like that find . -name *foo* | ls -lah it gives me a ls-output of 'pwd' like I had no file(s) given to 'ls'. To simply use ls -lah $( find . -name *foo* ) works well (when the ...
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Why does ls -lh give me ls: invalid option — 'h'

I'm using Interpid (I know I need to upgrade). When I try and use the -h option with ls I get an error. I swear this used to work, and the man page says it should. Any ideas? $ sudo ls -lh ls: ...
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How to activate pagination for ls command?

What is the equivalent option for the ls command to activate pagination as in DOS the dir /p does?
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In the output of 'ls -n', what does the the second column mean?

When I run: ls -n I get something like: -rwxrwxrwx 1 1000 1000 765528 2009-10-15 18:41 file1 drwxr-xr-x 10 1000 1000 4096 2010-12-07 20:50 dir1 drwxr-xr-x 3 1000 1000 4096 2010-10-24 ...