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byran cheung 06-04-2014 05:07 AM
what is * mean
 
I use ls -lt to list file , and found that there are * at the end of the file , would advise what is that * mean ? thanks

#ls -lt
rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10448 Aug 10 2012 mod_auth_basic.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10456 Aug 16 2012 mod_authn_alias.so*

colucix 06-04-2014 05:16 AM
It means that files have the execution permission set. The asterisk - as some other indicators - appears when you use the option -F of the ls command to classify the items by type. The same is done by means of colours on modern Linux systems. Maybe you have ls aliased to ls -F.

byran cheung 06-08-2014 09:11 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by colucix (Post 5182110)
It means that files have the execution permission set. The asterisk - as some other indicators - appears when you use the option -F of the ls command to classify the items by type. The same is done by means of colours on modern Linux systems. Maybe you have ls aliased to ls -F.

thanks reply , that mean the file is executable ? thanks

colucix 06-09-2014 09:58 AM
Yes. Nevertheless you won't execute a shared library (.so files) directly from the command line. ;)


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