read Permissions on a Directory: Example (continued 2)

• QUIZ: I can still see that the directory exists. Why?

        $ ls -ltr /tmp
        total 1904
        ...
        drwx--x--x  2 root     wheel     512 Jul 17 10:54 explain-read

• QUIZ: What does the -d option to ls do?

        $ ls -ld /tmp/explain-read/
        drwx--x--x  2 root  wheel  512 Jul 17 10:54 /tmp/explain-read/