Why does 'ls' output come up with a dot (".") following the file permissions in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Issue
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Why does
ls
output come up with a dot following the file permissions in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6?$ ls -ld test drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Feb 14 18:14 test
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Why do some files not have the dot (
.
) whilst some others have it?[root@localhost ~]# ls -l total 64 -rw-------. 1 root root 2636 Feb 17 02:46 anaconda-ks.cfg -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 41179 Feb 17 02:46 install.log -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 9154 Feb 17 02:44 install.log.syslog -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 21 22:24 test
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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