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

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On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:

> 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

  actually, i *had* tried google, combinations of "ls" and "mode" and
"dot" and "trailing period" but nothing came up.  weirdly, the one
that finally hit it was :

http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&q=fedora+ls+mode+printed&meta=&aq=&oq=fedora+ls+mode+printed&fp=cf2547b2365d1cd0

no mention of the word "period" at all.  :-)

rday
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