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From: Joshua Lokken <joshua@twobirds.us>
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* rfa@msumain.edu.ph <rfa@msumain.edu.ph> [2004-03-22 07:39]:
> 
> Also i was wondering what the asterisk at the end of this line means:
> 
> -rwsr-x---  1 root  apache  9873 Oct 22  2002 chpasswd*
> 

It means that chpasswd is an executable file.


> 
> but when i run ls -l it says
> 
> -rwsr-x---  1 root  apache  9873 Oct 22  2002 chpasswd
> without the asterisk.


You'll see the asterisk if you use the -F flag to ls, ie

# ls -lF


-- 
Joshua

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