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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Extreme Beginner Post 302916015 by SomeDudeOnline on Friday 5th of September 2014 06:32:22 PM

09-05-2014

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Thank you all, every explanation was very helpful.For the permissions issue, I found an explanation online that I just couldn't make sense of but Jim did a fantastic job.

Code:

File type: d== directory l== link
|
|
|
|
|
_
drwxrwxr-x
 ___   ___
  | ___ |
  |  |  |
  |  |  (World) other permissions  r,w,x, and -
  |  group permissions r,w,x, and -
  owner permissions: r == read, w== write, x ==execute  - == permission denied

So to confirm: In the code above from Jim's explanation, the "d" in "drwxrwxr-x" means "Directory", and if that line were instead "lrwxrwxr-x" the "l" would mean "Symbolic Link", and if that line were instead "-rwxrwxr-x" the "-" would mean "Permission Denied"?

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File::HomeDir::Unix(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    File::HomeDir::Unix(3)

NAME

       File::HomeDir::Unix - Find your home and other directories on legacy Unix

SYNOPSIS

	 use File::HomeDir;

	 # Find directories for the current user
	 $home	  = File::HomeDir->my_home;	   # /home/mylogin
	 $desktop = File::HomeDir->my_desktop;	   # All of these will...
	 $docs	  = File::HomeDir->my_documents;   # ...default to home...
	 $music   = File::HomeDir->my_music;	   # ...directory
	 $pics	  = File::HomeDir->my_pictures;    #
	 $videos  = File::HomeDir->my_videos;	   #
	 $data	  = File::HomeDir->my_data;	   #

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides implementations for determining common user directories.  In normal usage this module will always be used via
       File::HomeDir.

SUPPORT

       See the support section the main File::HomeDir module.

AUTHORS

       Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

       Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

       File::HomeDir, File::HomeDir::Win32 (legacy)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2005 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.

       Some parts copyright 2000 Sean M. Burke.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

perl v5.16.3							    2012-10-19						    File::HomeDir::Unix(3)

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