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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines