I've only been using Linux for about a year now (actually it's a year this month). My first computer was an IBM 8086 clone with MS-DOS 2.0. I liked MS-DOS a lot better than MSWindows because if something went wrong, the problem was a lot easier to find: all the files needed for a single application were all kept in the same directory, etc. Anyway, in MS-DOS, when you ask for a directory listing, it listed the files in the directory you were asking for (like ls), but it also gave a listing of the total bytes contained in the files in the listing you asked for. I was wondering if there was any way I could do that with ls. I know that with nautilus you can do a Cntrl-A to select all the files in the directory you're currently viewing and the total byte size will be shown in the status bar, but is there a way to find out from a terminal window?
