Is bad help considered a bug?  On the theory that it is I'm sending you 
the following excerpt.  The descrition of the "-F" option is broken, or
should I say broken English. 

I would say: append a file-type indicator to file-name.


  --  Paul

bash-2.01$ ls --help 
Usage: ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort.

...
  -F, --classify             append a character for typing each entry
      --format=WORD          across -x, commas -m, horizontal -x, long -l,
                               single-column -1, verbose -l, vertical -C
      --full-time            list both full date and full time
...

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