Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:00:44 -0800 From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: files with an asterisk are not editable - why? Message-ID: <3A6B863C.380F6552@wiegand.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101211622550.12211-100000@genisis>
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I ran ls -lF and got the class assignment files listed with the asterisk, owned by myself (not root). I then ran ls -lf and got a similar listing but the files in question do not have the asterisk. I ran ll and got a listing that was the same as running ls -lF except the files in question did not have the asterisks. In the man page, ls(1), an asterisk means that the file is executable. How does a .html file, or a .gif file, get the executable attribute? Could it be because I first created some of these as root on a floppy, then copied them to my user directory? Since I was not able to work on them as a user, I chmod 777 the files so I could work on them. That may be where the executable flag comes from? I was not able to work on the floppy as a user, only as root. -- Chip Dru wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Chip wrote: > > > I have some homework files I have been working > > on, and for some reason they now have an asterisk > > by the name, and I cannot edit them. What could > > have caused this? > > What does an "ls -lF" of the directory these files live in say? > > Dru -- Chip Wiegand Alternative Operating Systems www.wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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