I wanted to know what is the unit(bytes, bits, kb) of the output of the ls -l
command in Linux. Here is an example of what I've got :
-rw-rw-r-- 1 guest guest 39870 Feb 14 19:41 ser_cat
-rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 19935 Feb 14 19:35 ser_cp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 guest guest 19935 Feb 14 19:29 ser_more
I wanted to know what is the unit of 39870 (the size of ser_cat)?
Best Answer
That size is in bytes.
You can use
ls -lh
to print the long listing with human readable file sizes.