[colug-432] What is the meaning of a trailing "+" in "ls -l" permissions output?

[Bill Baker]

If you type 'info ls' at a command prompt, it will tell you (about 79%
of the way through) the following:

"A file with any other combination of alternate access methods is marked
with a `+' character."

And according to the web page:

http://www.cims.nyu.edu/cgi-comment/man.cgi?section=1&topic=ls

It means that a non-trivial ACL (access control list) is associated with
the file.

On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 18:52 -0800, Peter Kukla wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to $DEFAULT_SEARCH_ENGINE this, but thought I'd ask here, too, since I'm find that it's not exactly the easiest thing to search for.
> 
> I saw on a Red Hat (?) box today file permissions that included a trailing + character.  I've never seen that before, and I'm trying to figure out what it indicates:
> 
>    -rw-rwxr--+
> 
> Does anyone out there have a URL handy that explains what this means?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> -peter
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