what means a dash (.) in the end of the permission of a directory

[ressoussi]

Hello,

on a directory i have this persmission "drwxr-xr-x."

I don't understant what mean the (.) in the end.

Can someone explain to me please?

Thanx

[TrevorH]

It means the file has extended attributes and usually that means it's selinux information.

[jlehtone]

From info '(coreutils) ls invocation' (section What information is listed::):

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 a security
context, but no other alternate access method.

A file with any other combination of alternate access methods is
marked with a ‘+’ character.

[sml]

A relatively easy way to directly arrive at that part of the coreutils info manual is

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info ls --index-search='permissions, output by ls'

You may abbreviate the index term as long as it stays unambiguous. Try

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info ls --index-search=permissions,\ o