pschmidt@... wrote:

> On 14 Dec 2002 at 16:15, Sujan Sreenath sujan420@HotPO wrote:

[...]

>>P.S. When I use a "ls -l" command some files have a * mark at the end
>>of the filename. What does that mean?
>
> I'm not sure, I used to know, years ago, but can't recall at the moment....
>

fyi,

%man ls | grep -A 4 -B 1 "*"
-F Display a slash (`/') immediately after each pathname that
is a directory, 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.

hth,
mad.