the "d" means the directory. the first rwx is for the "owner" and means he has complete control over reading, writing and executing. The next three, r-x is for the "group", and means they can read the file and execute it but not modify it, and the last is for the "anyone" category and means that they too can only read and execute the file.

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Bob Wallace <bob.wallace39@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/20/2014 01:04 PM, Michael Havens wrote:

bmike1@c521 ~ $ ls -l ~
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 2 bmike1 bmike1 4096 Dec 18 20:15 Desktop
--etc--

in the above ls output what do the third and fourt fields represent?
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oh yeah. 'owner' and 'group'! is it in that order?
:-)~MIKE~(-:

Following that first (single) character/field, it's owner, group, anyone for the three sets of characters, rwx, in each of those positions.

-Bob

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