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

The following information is provided:

• permissions
• number of linked hardlinks
• owner of the file
• to which group this file belongs to
• size
• modification/creation date and time
• file/directory name