Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

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Subject: Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"
From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:39:31 +0000
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On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i once knew this, really.  what's the explanation of that recent
> introduction of an extra period after the normal mode bits in the
> output from "ls -l"?

Let me google that for you:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ls+dot+permissions

Bryn.


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