[SOLVED] What is long-format in Linux?

What is long-format in Linux?

What exactly is the long format in Linux?. I am a newbie into programming and Linux. So I was taking a tutorial in terminal operations. This command ls -l is said to list the files in the working directory in long format. Can somebody explain or give resources explaining about the long format and its use?

Solution

As you already may know, ls shows you the directories and files in your current folder.

ls -l (or shortly ll) prints you the long format as follows:

drwxr-xr-xr root root 1093 Oct 7 09:26 file

these stand for:

permissions(r-read,x-execute,w-write) if any of these fields is disabled, you don't have the permission to do it.
root root stands for the owner of the file and the group owner (you will find out about root as you carry on learning about linux).
Next is the file size, after which the date the file was created, the time when it was last modified and the files name.

For more explanation visit this link: http://go2linux.garron.me/command-ls-file-permissions