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mgriggs13 02-10-2008 01:58 PM
Simple questions about ls -l prinout
 
drwxr-xr-x 2 titojesus root 4096 2008-02-10 12:15 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 3 titojesus root 4096 2008-02-08 13:39 Documents


above... what do the 2 and 3 after the permissions block mean?

bigrigdriver 02-10-2008 02:09 PM
The number after the file permissions tells you the number of links to that directory. You can read more about it here:http://nixdox.org/linux-unix/file-pe...ons-intro.html.


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