System Administration Guide

How to Display File Information

Display information about all the files in a directory by using the ls command.

$ ls -la

`-l`	Displays the long format.
`-a`	Displays all files, including hidden files that begin with a dot (.).

Each line in the display has the following information about a file:

Type of file and its permissions
Number of hard links
Owner of the file
Group of the file
Size of the file, in bytes
Date the file was created or the last date it was changed
Name of the file

Example--Displaying File Information

The following example displays the partial list of the files in the /sbin directory.

$ cd /sbin
$ ls -la
total 5980
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  sys       512 May  1  1996 ./
drwxr-xr-x  33 root  root     1024 Sep  5 14:42 ../
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin   bin    118840 Oct 25  1995 autopush*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root  root       21 May  1  1996 bpgetfile -> ...
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin   bin    515272 Oct 25  1995 hostconfig*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin   bin    569792 Oct 25  1995 ifconfig*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  sys    246688 Oct 25  1995 init*
-r-xr-xr-x   2 bin   root   189364 Oct 25  1995 jsh*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin   bin    161140 Oct 25  1995 mount*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  sys      6908 Jan  1  1970 mountall*
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