It's a symlink: sterling at rooster:/home/sterling> ln -s /tmp ./tmp sterling at rooster:/home/sterling> ls -la | grep tmp lrwxrwxrwx 1 sterling sterling 4 Nov 24 12:11 tmp -> /tmp/ On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, gregrwm wrote: > what is the meaning of "lower case L" in a file permission? See "lower case > L" in "Convert ls -l output to chmod format". > >