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SteelCore
October 21st, 2009, 03:48 AM
The output of ls -l

-rw-r--r-- 1 satu satu 39606 2009-10-20 23:34 equitec_v3.pdf
drwxr-xr-x 2 satu satu 4096 2009-10-20 22:48 test1
what do the numbers 39606 and 4096 refer to? Thanks
martrn
October 21st, 2009, 04:00 AM
what do the numbers 39606 and 4096 refer to? Thanks

39606 KB and 4096 KB

In ubuntu they are Kilobytes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte eg a unit of digital information storage equal to 1,024 bytes.