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Old 11-13-2009
There is a * after file name, what does it mean ?
Code:
[root@node01 Gateway]# cd /usr/people/MSI/MaterialsStudio/Gateway/
[root@node01 Gateway]# ll
total 96K
drwxr-xr-x 12 5000 users 4.0K Oct 19  2004 apache/
drwxr-xr-x  3 5000 users 4.0K Oct 19  2004 config/
drwx------  3 root root  4.0K Nov 11 10:43 configurations/
-rwx------  1 root root  6.2K Nov 11 10:44 gwcmd.sh*
-rwx------  1 root root    76 Nov 11 10:44 gwconfigtest*
-rwx------  1 root root   330 Nov 11 10:44 gwdeconfigure*
-rwx------  1 root root   344 Nov 11 10:44 gwdeconfigureall*
-rwx------  1 root root   353 Nov 11 10:44 gwinfo*
-rwx------  1 root root   352 Nov 11 10:44 gwperl*
-rwx------  1 root root  1.6K Nov 11 10:44 gwpid.sh*
-rwx------  1 root root   714 Nov 11 10:44 gwrestart*
-rwx------  1 root root   409 Nov 11 10:44 gwsecurity*
-rwx------  1 root root   774 Nov 11 10:44 gwstart*
-rwx------  1 root root   667 Nov 11 10:44 gwstop*
-rwx------  1 root root   386 Nov 11 10:44 gwtest*
-rwx------  1 root root   452 Nov 11 10:44 gwusers*
drwxr-xr-x  2 5000 users 4.0K Oct 19  2004 legal/
-rwx------  1 root root   902 Nov 11 10:44 msgateway_control_18888*
drwxr-xr-x  4 5000 users 4.0K Oct 19  2004 perl/
-rw-r--r--  1 5000 users 5.1K Oct 19  2004 README.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 5000 users   15 Oct 19  2004 revision.txt
drwx------  4 root root  4.0K Nov 11 10:44 root_default/

Last edited by cqlouis; 11-13-2009 at 11:50 PM..
# 2  
Old 11-14-2009
* means executable...


Code:
man ls
.......
 -F, --classify
              append indicator (one of */=>@|) to entries
.........


When you have the specific option, you get different indicators, @ for link, * for executable, / for dir ..
# 3  
Old 11-14-2009
nice,
i didn't knew that.
 
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