On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Vic Gedris wrote: > It means there's an access control list (getfacl / setfacl...). > > You're right, the documentation should be way more obvious. "man ls" > should point to that. actually, no, it shouldn't because that's typically filesystem-specific and not strictly the responsibility of "ls". you need to read the actual GNU coreutils manual for the full picture: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/What-information-is-listed.html "Following the file mode bits is a single character that specifies whether an alternate access method such as an access control list applies to the file. When the character following the file mode bits is a space, there is no alternate access method. When it is a printing character, then there is such a method. "GNU ls uses a ‘.’ character to indicate a file with an SELinux security context, but no other alternate access method. "A file with any other combination of alternate access methods is marked with a ‘+’ character." rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================