[Sunhelp] Significance of *

[Jarrett Carver]

First it would seem to imply that you are using 'ls -aF', or have 'ls -aF' 
aliased to ls. If you look at the man for ls and go down to the -F option 
you will see that an asterik (*) means that the file is executable.



----Original Message Follows----
From: "Nabeel Ahmed" <nahmed at infoboard.com>
Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
To: "SunHelp" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Subject: [Sunhelp] Significance of *
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 12:33:35 -0400

What does a trailing * in the filename imply?
eg: .netrc* is a filename. The '.' implies that it is hidden, what does the
'*' imply?
Regards,
Nabeel


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