From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 1 09:29:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA00922 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 09:29:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA00911 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 09:29:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA04482; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 09:31:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 09:31:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Skynet1@cris.com cc: Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <9610310214.AA29281@mariner.cris.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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