What does an arrow mean when listing files?

Question

I am listing hidden files:

ls -ld .?* 

And I get an output:

drwxrwxr-x  3 kisco kisco   4096 Jun 18 19:41 .shutter
drwx------  6 kisco kisco   4096 Jun 17 11:07 .Skype
-rw-------  1 kisco kisco  12288 Jun 16 17:47 .swm
-rw-------  1 kisco kisco 360448 May 25 22:04 .swn
-rw-------  1 kisco kisco  12288 May  9 21:42 .swo
-rw-------  1 kisco kisco  12288 May  7 21:35 .swp
drwx------  4 kisco kisco   4096 Jun  9 14:45 .thunderbird
-rw-rw-r--  1 kisco kisco   4761 Feb 17  2013 .tmux.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  1 kisco kisco     33 Jun 19 08:25 .vim -> /home/kisco/.haskell-vim-now/.vim
drwxrwxr-x  4 kisco kisco   4096 Jun 17 19:40 .vim.20150619_082532
drwxrwxr-x 12 kisco kisco   4096 Jun 16 13:49 .vim_bak
-rw-------  1 kisco kisco   8214 Jun 19 12:19 .viminfo
lrwxrwxrwx  1 kisco kisco     35 Jun 19 08:25 .vimrc -> /home/kisco/.haskell-vim-now/.vimrc
-rw-rw-r--  1 kisco kisco  10673 Jun 18 19:51 .vimrc~
-rw-rw-r--  1 kisco kisco  10673 Jun 18 19:52 .vimrc.20150619_082532
-rw-r--r--  1 kisco kisco  20480 Jun 16 17:48 .vimrc.swo
-rw-------  1 kisco kisco  12288 Jun  5 10:50 .vimscript.R.swp
drwx------  2 kisco kisco   4096 Mar 16 13:19 .vnc
-rw-------  1 kisco kisco     50 Jun 19 11:14 .Xauthority
-rw-------  1 kisco kisco      0 May 15 17:39 .xsel.log
-rw-rw-r--  1 kisco kisco     14 Mar 16 13:23 .xsession
-rw-------  1 kisco kisco    711 Jun 19 11:14 .xsession-errors
-rw-------  1 kisco kisco   1486 Jun 19 10:14 .xsession-errors.old

What do these mean? ->

Solution

It means the file in question is a symbolic link and the path after the -> is the target of the symbolic link

Comments

[anubhava]

That means a symbolic link