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asvos@slack:src$ lscomp
/home/asvos/dev/lscomp/src:
total 7
Makefile.am     Makefile.in     a.out   lala    lscomp  lscomp.c        lscomp.c~
asvos@slack:src$ lscomp -1
/home/asvos/dev/lscomp/src:
total 7
Makefile.am
Makefile.in
a.out
lala
lscomp
lscomp.c
lscomp.c~

asvos@slack:src$ lscomp -a
/home/asvos/dev/lscomp/src:
total 9
.       ..      Makefile.am     Makefile.in     a.out   lala    lscomp  lscomp.c        lscomp.c~
asvos@slack:src$ lscomp -a1
/home/asvos/dev/lscomp/src:
total 9
.
..
Makefile.am
Makefile.in
a.out
lala
lscomp
lscomp.c
lscomp.c~

asvos@slack:src$ lscomp -r
/home/asvos/dev/lscomp/src:
total 7
Makefile.am     Makefile.in     a.out   lala    lscomp  lscomp.c        lscomp.c~

/home/asvos/dev/lscomp/src/lala:
total 0

asvos@slack:src$ lscomp -ra
/home/asvos/dev/lscomp/src:
total 9
.       ..      Makefile.am     Makefile.in     a.out   lala    lscomp  lscomp.c        lscomp.c~

/home/asvos/dev/lscomp/src/lala:
total 2
.       ..
asvos@slack:src$ lscomp -a /home
/home:
total 5
.       ..      asvos   ftp     lost+found
asvos@slack:src$