The default format for output directed to a terminal is multi-column with entries sorted down the columns. The mode printed under the - l option consists of ten characters. Within each set, the three characters indicate permission to read, to write, and to execute the file as a program, respectively. The character after permissions is ACL indication. A plus sign is displayed if there is an ACL associated with the file.
Nothing is displayed if there are just permissions.
The file contains 10,876 characters, or bytes. The plus sign indicates that there is an ACL associated with the file. Finally, the dash and letters tell you that user, group, and others have permissions to read, write, and execute part2 . A - in the third position would have indicated a denial of execution permissions. For user and group permissions, the third position is sometimes occupied by a character other than x or - .