Use the ls -l command to display detailed information about your files and directories.

Examples

In this example, the user displays the long (detailed) listing for files and directories stored under the current directory using the -l option.

$ ls -l    
total 8              
-rw-r--r-- 1 ted other 0 dec 2 09:05 file1
drwxr-xr-x 3 ted other 512 dec 4 13:44  franklin
drwxr-xr-x 3 ted other 512 dec 4 13:44  pigpen
drwxr-xr-x 5 ted other 512 dec 4 13:43 snoopy
drwxr-xr-x 4 ted other 512 dec 4 13:36 woodstock
-rw-r--r-- 1 ted other 320 dec 7 11:43 your login
-rw-r--r-- 1 ted other 368 dec 7 11:45 your login_1
$    

Using ls -la provides the following file information: