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From: Andreas Schulz <ats@freebsd.first.gmd.de>
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Subject: Re: Executable files
To: melrobin@Jetson.UH.EDU (Melvin Deloyd Robinson)
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 21:26:32 +0100 (MET)
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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 :-).


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