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What does the dot at the end of the permissions in the output of "ls -lah" mean?


I found some Linux files, and when I type ls -lah, it outputs this permissions format:

... 
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root  
...
-rw-rw-r--.  1 root    root 
...

I would like to know, what is the meaning of the dot (-rw-rw-r--.) at the end of the permissions format?


Solution

  • From info coreutils 'ls invocation' | grep -1 '[.+]. character' under Linux

    GNU `ls' uses a `.' character to indicate a file with an SELinux
         security context, but no other alternate access method.
    
    A file with any other combination of alternate access methods is
         marked with a `+' character.