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I'm not sure what you aren't understanding. Directories are just a type of file, so that's not wrong, the dir/file is owned by the `awesome` group, and the group permissions are `r--` so the group can indeed read it.

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Or one could apply Occam's razor and admit that "d" was a typo.

Of course, that's a much more likely scenario. I was attempting to show that the line was not completely nonsensical is all.

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