Drwxr-xr-x | Portable

In our case, the confirms that we are looking at a directory. 2. User/Owner Permissions ( rwx )

The next three characters represent the permissions granted to the who owns the file (the "owner"). In our example, the owner has rwx . drwxr-xr-x

Let’s slice this string into its ten individual characters. We will use the hypothetical output of ls -l for a directory called Documents : In our case, the confirms that we are looking at a directory