On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:55:57 +1300
"Robert Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Several files on our system appear bright green with a * immediately
> after them when a directory listing is performed.
>
> What does this indicate?
That their 'executable' bit is set.
In most cases that will mean that that file may be run by typing it's
command.
For example the commandline ls -l /usr/bin/s* returns the following
listing of /usr/bin (truncated)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14627 Apr 1 2000 /usr/bin/s2p*
-r-xr-sr-x 1 root games 21296 May 11 2000
/usr/bin/same-gnome*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2994 Apr 18 2000
/usr/bin/sane-config*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 122 Apr 25 2000
/usr/bin/savetextmode*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 194 Apr 21 2000
/usr/bin/saveunimap*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 140752 May 12 2000
/usr/bin/sawmill*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12816 May 12 2000
/usr/bin/sawmill-capplet*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10704 May 12 2000
/usr/bin/sawmill-client*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35314 May 12 2000
/usr/bin/sawmill-themer*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30416 May 12 2000
/usr/bin/sawmill-ui*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19440 Apr 18 2000
/usr/bin/scanimage*
And so on....
run 'man ls' from your console for a detailed explaination
Cheers
John
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