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16.1) Directory Listing

To see the permissions on files and directories type list with an option letter l (‘l’ as in ‘leg’) as:

ls –l

This is a long listing and tells you a lot about the files. See below for an example.

This shows an example listing using the ls -l command.

Watch the following video and then read the text. It gets technical and so a combination of video and written explanations are needed.

This explains the long listing of ls -l including the permissions.

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