[ale] the 'ls' command

Jason Day jasonday at worldnet.att.net
Fri Feb 28 18:31:48 EST 2003


On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:21:43PM -0500, Pete Hardie wrote:
> Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> >sometimes the man and info pages leave questions unanswered.
> >
> >Specifically, in <man ls> I see these lines:
> >
> ><  -F, --classify
> ><            append indicator (one of */=@|) to entries

[snip]
> from experiment:
> 
> @ is a symlink
> * is executable (by the mode setting)
> / is a directory
> | is a named pipe

= is a socket
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