[rhelv6-list] File listing?

Hugh Brown hbrown at divms.uiowa.edu
Fri Jan 21 16:20:52 UTC 2011


On 01/21/2011 10:07 AM, Omer Faruk SEN wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see
>
> dr-xr-xr-x. (trailing dot)
>
> when I use ls command on RHEL6 which weren't in RHEL5/4/3.
>
> What is the trailing dot in ls output?
>
> Regards.
>
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http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#ls-invocation
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1361101


GNU ls uses a ‘.’ character to indicate a file with an SELinux security 
context, but no other alternate access method.

A file with any other combination of alternate access methods is marked 
with a ‘+’ character.


Hugh




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