On December 31, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > I ran your commands. Your first for the root gave me a 73, while I > tried 2 different sub-dirs, gave me a 2. Strange. That *should* have been the permissions column, returning something like drwxr-x--- You can remove the pipe & awk, doing just $ ls -dlF $HOME $HOME/some_sub_dir and it should give you entire line, not just my attempt to isolate the permissions. Also, can you FTP things *from* your Shellworld home directory, but not *to* your home directory? -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list