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From: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
To: Mariusz Potocki <potok@friko.onet.pl>
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Subject: RE: lean mean kernel with sound!! + dumb questions
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> 
> At 03:49 PM 10/15/97 +0200, Mariusz Potocki wrote:

> >>ps- how do I distinguish between types files etc since I can't seem to
> >>find extensions?

The file command is useful, as you have already been told, but I prefer to
use csh and especially tcsh (you'll have to install tcsh as a port or
package) as my shell because I can easily alias the ls command as follows:

alias ls ls -F

Of course you can just use the ls -F command from bash as well (I'm not
sure how to get the equivalent to an alias in sh or bash).  From the man
page on ls we see the following documentation on the -F flag:

     -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, a percent sign (%) after each whiteout, and a vertical
             bar (|) after each that is a FIFO.

Thus allowing you to quickly see which files are directories etc...

To set your prompt in csh you can put the following in your .cshrc:

if ( $?prompt ) then
        alias cd 'cd \!*;s_prompt'  
        alias s_prompt 'set prompt = "`hostname` [$cwd] -> "'
        s_prompt
endif     


or more conveniently if you are using tcsh:

if ($shell != /bin/csh) then  
       set prompt = "%m [%/] -%# "
endif   


Hope this doesn't confuse you even more :-)


Tom