Help on linux!!

[kakashi]

i have to run these command in the terminal of linux.
cat /proc/self/maps
and it give the following outputs:

08048000-0804c000 r-xp 00000000 03:01 506253 /bin/cat
0804c000-0804d000 rw-p 00003000 03:01 506253 /bin/cat
0804d000-0804e000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
40000000-40015000 r-xp 00000000 03:01 506049 /lib/ld-2.3.2.so
40015000-40016000 rw-p 00014000 03:01 506049 /lib/ld-2.3.2.so
40016000-40017000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
40017000-40217000 r--p 00000000 03:01 457214 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
4200000-4212e000 r-xp 00000000 03:01 147004 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so
4212e000-42131000 rw-p 0012e000 03:01 147004 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so
42131000-42133000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
bfffd000-c0000000 rwxp ffffe000 00:00 0

can u explain what each column in the output means. (sorry.... can not arrange nicely according to column)

[Salem]

Well you could try http://www.tldp.org/docs.html