É a alocação total de disco para o conteúdo deste diretório:
‘-l’
‘--format=long’
‘--format=verbose’
In addition to the name of each file, print the file type, permissions, number of hard links, owner name, group name, size, and timestamp (see section 10.1.6 Formatting file timestamps), normally the modification time.
Normally the size is printed as a byte count without punctuation, but this can be overridden (see section 2.2 Block size). For example,
‘-h’
prints an abbreviated, human-readable count, and‘--block-size="'1"’
prints a byte count with the thousands separator of the current locale.For each directory that is listed, preface the files with a line
‘total blocks’
, where blocks is the total disk allocation for all files in that directory. The block size currently defaults to 1024 bytes, but this can be overridden (see section 2.2 Block size). The blocks computed counts each hard link separately; this is arguably a deficiency....
Editar: variações do texto acima podem ser encontradas em toda a web. Este trecho em particular é copiado e vinculado a ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old -gnu / Manuais / coreutils / html_node / coreutils_54.html .