Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 21:26:32 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Schulz <ats@freebsd.first.gmd.de> To: melrobin@Jetson.UH.EDU (Melvin Deloyd Robinson) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Executable files Message-ID: <199602212026.VAA25776@freebsd.first.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <01I1H0OCDFXA00030M@Post-Office.UH.EDU> from "Melvin Deloyd Robinson" at Feb 21, 96 10:49:34 am
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> At the University of Houston we use Next machines and I noticed that when I > list files the ones that are executable have an asterick beside them. For > instance if I compiled melvin.c as cc -o melvin melvin.c the file would look > list like this melvin* upon listing. This is pretty neat because you can > kinda tell what type of file it is simply by looking at it without typing > fun file or looking at the permissions. Is this a feature that is set on > login? Any of you UNIX hackers know how can I emulate this with FreeBSD? That is the -F flag for ls. Do a "man ls" to see what else is available :-). ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.10 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe
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