hopefully simple question - period on certain dirs/files in ls?
I am using Scientific Linux 6.1. I've never seen this particular behavior before switching to Linux from FreeBSD.
"ls -l" of some items lists a period after the permissions. Here are some examples of both files and directories: -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 366087056 Nov 10 20:30 video1.avi -rw-r--r--. 1 user user 372620148 Sep 26 23:19 video2.avi drwxr-xr-x. 2 user user 4096 Nov 7 09:49 dir1 drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Nov 8 13:59 dir2 In each case, what does the period after permissions for "other" mean? I didn't find anything about it in the "chmod" or "ls" manpages (but maybe I overlooked it)... Not a problem but deathly curious. Thanks!! |
It's explained in the info page:
Code:
Following the file mode bits is a single character that specifies |
Thank you very much!!
(I still don't entirely understand the implication, but at least I know what to read next to find out.) |
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