On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 09:43:27AM +0200, tomas.ri...@tutanota.com wrote: > I would expect that without the 'x' bit, the directory is not searchable > and I won't be able to list its contents. But in fact I can, unless I > use a long format (-l, -g or -n). > > Can someone please explain the above behaviour? Thank you. Tom
Very roughly... The list of files in a directory is information about the directory. If you chmod -r my-test-dir, this information will no longer be available, for example. The file size is information about the files themselves; to read it, you need to be in the directory. But as you can't, it's unreadable. -- Denis
