Richard Rager wrote:
> ls < my_file > -type will not work on kernal 2.2.5 redhat.
>
> the kiss way is `ls -l myfile` why put it in greek.
ls -l doesn't list the file type either. It should be
file myfile
(They had <> around the my_file to indicate it shouldn't be taken as a
literal string. However, they have fixed it on the exam now. It
currently reads file filename as it shoud)
This will output the file "type". Example: I have a file
latex-base.tar.gz in
my home directory. If I were stupid, and didn't know the .gz signified
it
as being a gzipped file (or if the .gz weren't there), I could type the
following
command and would be told what type of file it is:
%file latex-base.tar.gz
latex-base.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Sat
Mar 1 08:00:56 1997, os: Unix
ls -l only tells the size date ownership and permission information. It
doesn't tell
what type of file it is.
But this is getting way off topic.
Forrest
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