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So, I tried to search it but what does drw-r--r-- mean in Ubuntu?

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The first letter "d" means directory. All following letters are permissions for different users. "r" stands for reading, "w" for writing, and "x" denotes if file is executable.

First 3 letters behind "d" are permissions for owner, other 3 for group, and last 3 for others. The permissions for certain file/directory can be seen in Terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) using

ls -l

command. They can be changed using sudo chmod command (chmod has to be used with sudo).

More can be read here

So in your case this means that what are you looking at is a Directory that the owner (assuming that's you) has the permission to read and write, all other users can only read.

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