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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

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
    -------------                       ---------------                    ------------------
       r w x                                      r w x                                      r w x
        4 2 1                                     4 2 1                                     4 2 1
      ______                                 ______                                 ______
           |                                             |                                            |
           |                                             |                                            |  
          7                                          7                                           7

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