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LS-L Fields

The ls -l command displays file details including permissions, owner, size, date, and name. File permissions are shown as three sets of rwx characters for owner, group, and other indicating read, write, and execute access. The number of hard links refers to the number of file names associated with the inode.

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LS-L Fields

The ls -l command displays file details including permissions, owner, size, date, and name. File permissions are shown as three sets of rwx characters for owner, group, and other indicating read, write, and execute access. The number of hard links refers to the number of file names associated with the inode.

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Ls –l Fields

In the order of output;


-rwxrw-r-- 1 root root 2048 Jan 13 07:11 afile.exe
 file permissions (-rwxrw-r--),

 number of (hard) links (1),

 owner name (root),

 owner group (root),

 file size in bytes (2048),

 time of last modification (Jan 13 07:11), and

 file/directory name (afile.exe)

File permissions is displayed as following;


 first character is most often -, l or d. A d indicates a directory, a - represents a
regular file, l is a symlink (or soft link) and other letters are used for other
types of special files
 three sets of characters, three times, indicating permissions for owner, group
and other:
o r = readable

o w = writable

o x = executable (for files) or accessible (for directories)

 this may be followed by some other character of there are extended


permissions, like e.g. Linux ACL that are marked with a +.

In your example -rwxrw-r--, this means the line displayed is:

 a regular file (displayed as -)

 readable, writable and executable by owner (rwx)

 readable, writable, but not executable by group (rw-)

 readable but not writable or executable by other (r--)

The number of hard links means the number of names the inode has, i.e. links created
with ln without the -s option.

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