Thanks Kurt, I may have known that 15 years ago but I really appreciate clear statements like this now that I have forgtten so much. On 9/7/06, Kurt Granroth wrote: > On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:02, Dazed_75 wrote: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1554 2006-09-06 09:00 dhclient.conf > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1566 2005-09-14 17:41 dhclient.conf~ > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-07-13 15:03 dhclient-enter-hooks.d > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-06-07 21:33 dhclient-exit-hooks.d > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8322 2006-05-05 08:02 dhclient-script > [snip] > > Notice the 1's and 2's before the owner names? I was checking what > > they might be and tried this. That digit is still unexplained (to me) > > but it was the reason I tried this. > > The 1's and 2's show how many hard links are associated with that particular > label. In the case of files, it refers to the number of hard links to that > same file data. In the case of directories, it refers to the number of other > directories contained within. > > That means that files will start off with a count of 1. Directories always > start off with 2 since they always have '.' and '..' It's not reliable to > use that to detect if a label is a directory or not, though, since a file > with another hard link would show up as '2' as well. > > A more reliable way of detecting the type using 'ls' is to look at the first > character in the permissions. Note that for all of the regular files, the > first char is '-' but for the directories, it is 'd'. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss