-2
-rwx-
 124 
 421

Which is right??

I'm confused .

Anyone knows this?

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    @jw013 has given you the correct answer, but for your future reference, this is available to you in your systems documentation - man chmod in this case explains the file mode bits in detail.
    – Mike Insch
    Aug 4, 2011 at 10:06

1 Answer 1

1
rwx
421

Read it like a binary number (place values increase to the left)

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