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What does star mean beside a file

Hi guys, today for the first time, I saw star beside some files here it is

Quote:

gingercook@DSTmultilayer:~$ l -l
total 32
-rwxrwxr-x 1 gingercook gingercook 68 Nov 5 05:52 deneme.sh*
drwxrwxr-x 6 gingercook gingercook 4096 Nov 3 18:48 dst_server/
drwx------ 3 gingercook gingercook 4096 Nov 5 03:15 management/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gingercook gingercook 122 Nov 4 12:15 randmsg.txt
drwxrwxr-x 8 gingercook gingercook 4096 Nov 5 14:05 Steam/
drwxrwxr-x 5 gingercook gingercook 4096 Nov 5 14:05 steamcmd/
-rwxrwxr-x 1 gingercook gingercook 562 Nov 5 10:51 welcomemsg.sh*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gingercook gingercook 40 Nov 5 05:18 welcomenull.txt

What do these stars represent? thank you

The asterisk means that the file is executable.

Try looking at the 'General output formatting' when you run:

Code:

info ls

welll actually this happened to me when I mistyped ls -l as

l -l

Take that "Rep: Disabled" Dllobach,,, oh sorry, not much to contribute... :o