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Why aren't CD image files listed when mounted in current directory?
When mounting a disk image in the current directory using :
sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 wall.iso ./
Listing files in current directory only returns wall.iso .
To view the actual files on the disk ...
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Why do . and .. have a file size of 4 kB and 12 kB, respectively? [duplicate]
As displayed by ls -al, for example:
drwxr-xr-x 9 jb jb 4.0K Mar 8 18:05 ./
drwx------ 49 jb jb 12K Mar 17 14:15 ../
I assume this is the minimum amount of space required to store the inode's ...
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Why could the size of the “dot file” /. exceed 4096?
Today I found an "empty" directory with a size of 4MB.
It had no visible contents, so I tried ls -lah. This showed me some hidden files (not very large). Searching for the reason why the directory ...
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vote
1answer
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cannot 'ls' /mnt directory
I have a CentOS-6 machine that I'm working on that is running a live database. It's having a problem with the /mnt directory. I cannot ls the directory for some reason. stat is working and shows ...
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3answers
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Bash autocomplete gives different file name than ls
An incredibly strange thing just happened. Through a serious typo, I entered
cp filename.xsl .^?~
Yeah, that's right, dot-caret-questionmark-tilde! Truth is stranger than fiction.
It gets weirder. ...
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vote
1answer
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wdfs mount problem
I'm running Fedora/Gnome 3.4.2 64bit and I'm trying to mount a webdav file system to work with.
As root, I run the command
#mkdir /mnt/webdav
#wdfs https://www.webiste.com:port/directory ...
3
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2answers
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file block size - difference between stat and ls
I've noticed that when I do a:
ls -ls file
It provides block count, say 8 blocks.
When I do:
stat file
I notice that the block count is 16, twice the number given by ls.
The block size on my ...
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How can I tell when a file was modified?
I am running some simulation on a high performance computing cluster (HPC). When I check when the file was changed with ls -t I get the wrong result. I know this becouse I have run a small job that ...
13
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3answers
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When does `ls -s` print “0”
Of course, the standard way of testing if a file is empty is with test -s FILE, but one of our clients have received a script containing tests like this:
RETVAL=`ls -s ./log/cr_trig.log | awk '{print ...
7
votes
3answers
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Why is sorting files by access time not working?
I tried to use command
ls --time=atime
it was working in one directory but wasn't working in another directory.
I opened certain files in vim, evince and other applications but after the
command file ...
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4answers
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What is the “directory order” of files in a directory (used by `ls -U`)?
According to the man page for ls, ls -U means:
do not sort; list entries in directory order.
What does "directory order" mean, and how is it determined?
The following test (executed on an ...
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votes
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Why does “ls *” take so much longer than “ls”?
I have a couple of files in a directory:
$ ls | wc -l
9376
Can anybody explain why there is such a huge time difference in using ls * and ls?
$ time ls > /dev/null
real 0m0.118s
user ...
2
votes
3answers
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Really strange FAT32 file listing problem
I'm mounting a FAT32 drive on my NAS (which has a USB port), and hitting a strange issue when I use the ls command on the drive root:
ls: cannot access ???²é?u.g: Input/output error
ls: cannot ...
