On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:48:24 +1300
Walter Logeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> revealed these words to me:
> Hi,
>
> What do the * and the @ denote after a file - as in the
> following listing:
>
> 998 walter@psybernet:/sbin (04:45:25)
> $ ls
> agetty* ether-wake* ifup* killall5*
> mkfs.msdos@
>
>
this is the result when you pass the switch -F to ls (see for yourself by typing alias
| grep ls ). the -F option presents this explanation from 'man ls':
-F, --classify
append indicator (one of */=@|) to entries
the asterisk means that the file is an executable (its execute bit is set to on ).
the slash means that the file is a directory
the at sign ('@') means that it is a link
the pipe means its a, well, pipe (either named or unnamed).
i dont know about the equals sign but i think it pertains to special files that you
wont meet frequently (check your /dev as there are some files there that have this
indicator.)
ciao!
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