What is the meaning of the dot '.' after last (the rightest one ) 'x' in the second line ? This is the output of
[igor@localhost ~]$ ls -l /usr/local/bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 113797 Aug 20 05:30 gpib
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 30283 Jul 16 22:48 ibtest
No, this is not the only dot in the output from 'ls -l'. There are many ... but NOT on every line.
(CentOS 6.4 32-bit)
If you have a look at info ls What\ information, it tells you
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.
