Making the output "total" from ls more self-explanatory
Bug #1571849 reported by
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| coreutils (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with coreutils 8.25-2ubuntu2 and for example on executing "ls -al" on an empty directory I'm getting as output in the first line "total 8" with 2 following lines containing the listings for the files "." and "..". Actually I have no idea what "total" stands for as the probably most plausible explanation of being the number of files listed doesn't seem to match. Maybe this line could be reworded to be more self-explanatory.
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