Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 09:31:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Skynet1@cris.com Cc: Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961101092900.4467A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9610310214.AA29281@mariner.cris.com>
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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996 Skynet1@cris.com wrote:
> With the LS command, what isd the number after the permission bits specify?
> At os sometimes it is a 1 and sometimes 2 or even 5644....what does it mean?
> Thanks..
It's the link count. See `man ls`
-rw-r--r-- 1 dwhite 1000 1893 Aug 28 20:05 upgrade-instructions
^
This is a regular file, with no symlinks or hard links.
drwxr-xr-x 6 dwhite 1000 1024 Sep 22 23:58 upsd-2.0/
^
This is a directory with 4 subdirectories in it. All directories have two
links -- the current directory . and the previous directory (..).
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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