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omnipotent

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Registered: 2013-02-28

Posts: 10

why ls always show subdirectory count of 1?

ls -l ~

result:

drwxr-xr-x 1 cz cz 274 Aug 10 15:13 directory_0
drwxr-xr-x 1 cz cz 116 Aug 10 15:11 directory_1
drwxr-xr-x 1 cz cz 290 Aug 10 09:41 directory_2
drwxr-xr-x 1 cz cz 148 Aug 10 02:24 directory_3
drwxr-xr-x 1 cz cz 148 Aug 10 02:24 directory_4
drwxr-xr-x 1 cz cz 148 Aug 10 02:24 directory_5
drwxr-xr-x 1 cz cz 148 Aug 10 02:24 directory_6
drwxr-xr-x 1 cz cz 148 Aug 10 02:24 directory_7
drwxr-xr-x 1 cz cz 148 Aug 10 02:24 directory_8

i'm using btrfs, thanks in advance

Malkymder

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Registered: 2015-05-13

Posts: 258

Re: why ls always show subdirectory count of 1?

and you would expect it to be ?

you have 1 hard link for each of the name displayed ....

you might find this link helpfull ... counting and listing hard links on Linux

Last edited by Malkymder (2015-08-11 07:56:40)