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". > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list