what does terminal command: ls -l show?

Question

I know that it outputs the \"long\" version but what do each of the sections mean?

On my mac, when I type in

ls -l /Users 

I ge

Answer 1

If you type the command

$ man ls

You’ll get the documentation for ls, which says in part:

The Long Format
If the -l option is given, the following information is displayed for each file: file mode, number of links, owner name, group name, number of bytes in the file, abbreviated month, day-of-month file was last modified, hour file last modified, minute file last modified, and the pathname. In addition, for each directory whose contents are displayed, the total number of 512-byte blocks used by the files in the directory is displayed on a line by itself, immediately before the information for the files in the directory. If the file or directory has extended attributes, the permissions field printed by the -l option is followed by a '@' character. Otherwise, if the file or directory has extended security information (such as an access control list), the permissions field printed by the -l option is followed by a '+' character.
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The man command is short for “manual”, and the articles it shows are called “man pages”; try running man manpages to learn even more about them.