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Author: Michael Havens
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: ls -l
is there a purpose to giving a file 'write' permission but not 'read'.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:52 PM, druid001 . <> wrote:

> 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 <>
> 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?
>>> .
>>> .
>>> .
>>> 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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