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diff --git a/ll-function b/ll-function
index d895ae0..cdc2c81 100644
--- a/ll-function
+++ b/ll-function
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 # better hard link count: number of subdirectories or number of linked files or omitted if 0
 # better human readable size
 # more natural date/time format for my American raised eyes
+# remove first line size summary
 ll() {
     local x y perm line binls sizePadding middle tail size \
            max_hl_digits hardlinks initial_space hardlink_spacing
@@ -35,11 +36,12 @@ ll() {
     #  or blank for no other kind of acl
     #  I don't want to see this generally.
     while read line; do
-	if $first; then
+        # if we did want the first line, it would need to be stripped of non-printing chars:
+	# line=${line#$'\E[00m'}
+        # when no argument is given to ls, the first line is like "total 123M". strip that
+	if $first && [[ ! $@ ]]; then
 	    first=false
         else
-            # if we did want the first line, it would need to be stripped of non-printing chars:
-	    # line=${line#$'\E[00m'}
             lines+=("$line")
             [[ ! ${line:10:1} == " " ]] && aclchar=true