Understanding the output of ls -l

• me@locutus:~$ ls -l /etc | grep init.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-02-08 14:29 init.d

• 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

• directory / link / socket / block dev / character dev / file

• Owner's permissions

• Group's permissions

• World's permissions

• Owner

• Group

• Filesize

• Date last modified

• Filename