what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

2009-11-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent introduction of an extra period after the normal mode bits in the output from "ls -l"? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Onta

Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

2009-11-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent > introduction of an extra period after the normal mode bits in the > output from "ls -l"? > > rday never mind, found it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_FAQ#Why_does_ls

Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent > introduction of an extra period after the normal mode bits in the > output from "ls -l"? Let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ls+dot+permissions Bryn. --

Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

2009-11-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent > > introduction of an extra period after the normal mode bits in the > > output from "ls -l"? > > Let me google that for you

Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

2009-11-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent > > introduction of an extra period after the normal mode bits in the > > output from "ls -l"? > > Let me google that for you

RE: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

2009-11-12 Thread Rajan, S. (Sanya)
, November 12, 2009 2:45 PM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l" On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >

Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:45 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent > > > introduction of an extra period after the normal mod

Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

2009-11-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:45 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent > > >

Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

2009-11-12 Thread Todd Zullinger
Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:45 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: [...] >> a followup question would be, is there an ls option that would >> *prevent* that security setting character from being printed? i >> ask since i'm working with a software project (openembedded) that >

Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 08:58 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > that's ok, it was only an issue because of the incredibly hacky way > that a numeric mode was being reproduced from an existing file -- by > grabbing the current symbolic mode, then running it through sed to get > the numeric mode back.