--- Brian Lavender <brian@brie.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 02:24:09PM -0800, Webb
> Sprague wrote:
> Webb> Hi folks. 2 quick questions:
> Webb>
> Webb> 1. What do the magic numbers mean when you do
> "ls -l"?
>
> Which "magic" numbers are you referring to, Webb?
> If anyone knows what the "1" in the "ls -l" means, I
> would
> be curious to know.
>
######
That is the number that I am wondering about, too.
> $ ls -l ~/tmp
>
> total 1
> -rw------- 1 brian brian 360 Dec 17
> 19:55 dead.letter
> ^ ^ ^
> | | +- File size
> | + I am not sure what this means
> |
> +- User Read/Write, Next is group, then world
>
> Webb> 2. How do you tell awk to match an empty
> field? "$1
> Webb> ~ //" matches on every record in my thing,
> whether $1
> Webb> has anything in it or not.
>
> Hmm,
>
> I am just speaking from PERL experience, but you
> could try
> ~\ //
> or
> ~\s//
> or
> ~\S//
>
> HTH
>
> brian
> --
> Brian Lavender
> http://www.brie.com/brian/
>
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