Always want to to know how to read the properties of a file ? Well here is the information to put it into perspective...
Owner
Group
Public
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r w x
r w x
r w x
4 2 1 4 2 1 4 2 1
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7 7 7
Understanding the file propeties of a file is sometimes hard to understand, so here is a quick tutorial on doing just that. You normally see the below when you do a ls -al, and dont understand what it means, hopefully after you see this, you will then have a better understanding.
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 3 19:21 ppp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1790 Nov 30 00:15 printcap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 818 Nov 30 00:15 profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1663 Nov 30 00:15 protocols
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 40960 Mar 13 11:41 pwd.db
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 8091 Nov 30 00:15 rc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3512 Oct 17 12:08 rc.atm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8252 Mar 6 15:28 rc.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8252 Mar 6 15:28 rc.conf.previous
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 237 Oct 17 12:08 rc.devfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5849 Nov 30 00:15 rc.firewall
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2853 Nov 30 00:15 rc.i386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 659 Jan 14 21:49 rc.local
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