Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:29:08 +1000 (EST) From: "Michael Henry" <mhenry@hons.cs.usyd.edu.au> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Useful command Message-ID: <19990408023119.29D5A14D3B@hub.freebsd.org>
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While reading "Essential System Administration" (O'Reilly) the other day, I discovered a very useful command. "file" It identifies the files given as arguments. For example: $ file * battle: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped cleanup: executable shell script list: executable shell script myprocs: executable shell script nedit: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped In this case, I did it in my "bin" directory. (As you may have noticed, I'm not currently using FreeBSD). I recently upgraded from 2.2.6-Release to 3.1-Release, and I find this command very useful for identifying which binaries are in ELF format and which are in aout format. (I'm slowly but steadily replacing all aout binaries). I hope you find this information useful, Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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