Incoming from Michael Walters: > > I did a "cd /usr/bin" and then an "ls | less" and scrolled down and found > along the list in alphabetical order mozilla mozilla-1.6 mozplugger > mp3-decoder mp3check mp3rename et cetera.
for the record, you can do: cd ls -alF and the output is so: drwxr-xr-x 50 keeling keeling 8192 Aug 17 15:32 ./ drwxrwsr-x 4 root staff 4096 Nov 30 2003 ../ Those are the _current_ and _parent_ directories (/home/keeling, /home). /home/keeling is owned by user keeling, group keeling. /home is owned by user root, group staff. -rw-r--r-- 1 keeling keeling 1827 Mar 21 21:55 .acrorc That's a _hidden_ file. Anything with "." as its first char is considered hidden. It's the "a" in "ls -alF" that tells ls to display hidden files. -rwxr--r-- 1 keeling keeling 1756 Jul 27 20:42 .alias* That file is _executable_. The "*" at the end says so, as does the "x" in "-rwxr--r--". drwxr-xr-x 7 keeling keeling 8192 May 29 11:43 axhome/ That's a directory. The "d" at the beginning, and the "/" at the end say so. -rw-r--r-- 1 keeling keeling 0 Aug 16 17:26 blah That's an empty file. The "0" in the size field says so. lrwxrwxrwx 1 keeling keeling 36 Nov 30 2003 .DCOPserver_infidel -> /home/keeling/.DCO Pserver_infidel_:0 That's a _link_, something that points at something else. The "F" in "ls -alF" is what turns on the symbols at the end of the line. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
