On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Jeff Kittle <jkittle at wi.rr.com> wrote: > Has anyone noticed that the ls command tacks on ‘.’ Character at the end of > each permission string , example: > > > > total 124 > > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 2009-08-25 13:06 srv Maybe you have ls aliased?