Or a symbolic link. It’s a link to another file path.

Hard links, as I recall, are like drives mounted in the middle somewhere.



> On Nov 24, 2017, at 12:11 PM, Clug <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:
> 
> It's a symlink:
> 
> sterling at rooster:/home/sterling> ln -s /tmp ./tmp
> sterling at rooster:/home/sterling> ls -la | grep tmp
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 sterling sterling     4 Nov 24 12:11 tmp -> /tmp/
> 
> 
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, gregrwm wrote:
> 
>> what is the meaning of "lower case L" in a file permission?  See "lower case
>> L" in "Convert ls -l output to chmod format".
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