Why does ls show a dot (.) at the end on the file modes for some files?
Issue
- Why does ls show a dot (.) at the end on the file modes for some files?
# ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 22 10:03 file-1
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 22 10:03 file-2
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 22 10:03 file-3
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 22 10:03 file-4
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 22 10:03 file-5
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 22 10:03 file-6
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 22 10:03 file-7
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 22 10:03 file-8
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 22 10:03 file-9
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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