funny directory?

[Dazed_75]

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 <plug-discuss at granroth.org> 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'.
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