From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 10 17:11:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA27109 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:11:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA27087 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:10:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id BAA23756; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:08:14 +0100 (BST) To: Trencher cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: help with freebsd. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jun 1996 18:12:58 EDT." <31BB4C6A.2FDD@erinet.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:08:13 +0100 Message-ID: <23754.834451693@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Trencher wrote in message ID <31BB4C6A.2FDD@erinet.com>: > well i have a suggestion. why not make the ls command in freebsd > have a extra display to show if the file is executable or not. > like maybe just a > (filename)+(for being able to run it) then the rest ... .. ... . .. . > (fileanme)-(can't be run) then the rest... .. .. . > and maybe something for dirs like > (dirname)> <-- that would mean it is a dir. the ` < ' > these would help a newbie greatly like ME!!!!!! >From the `ls' man page: -F Display a slash (/) immediately after each pathname that is a di- rectory, an asterisk (*) after each that is executable, an at sign (@) after each symbolic link, an equals sign (=) after each socket, and a vertical bar (|) after each that is a FIFO. One word of warning though. I copied my first ever .cshrc from someone else, and those symbols appearing after the filenames confused the h*ll out of me for a while (I couldn't understand why `ls' came up with a file `foo*' but there was only a file `foo'). So that sort of thing could confuse more than help, unless explained first in words of one sylable in big letters every time they logged on... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info