Bernie wrote:
>
> Longer names are good (if you can complete them with
> TAB or use a GUI),
Don't forget the various 'commander' utilities.
> However the file "file" says nothing of what kind of
> file it is, "file.exe" for instance tell us that it's
> an executable so Linux isn't completly logically built,
In Linux, the executability of files is displayed by
using the -l parameter. I always alias 'dir' to this
in my installations (eg. BasicLinux).
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