On 2014-10-05 07:57, Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote on 2014-10-04 13:46 (UTC+0200):
That asterisk is displayed by "ls" and means the file is executable. It is not part of the name.
What "ls"?
$ l If 'l' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this: cnf l $
Thus, I don't know what command you issued.
How many years have you been using *suse? ;-) It is a traditional "suseism". cer@Telcontar:~> alias | grep ls alias dir='ls -l' alias l='ls -alF' <============ alias la='ls -la' alias ll='ls -l' alias ls='_ls' alias ls-l='ls -l' alias unmount='echo "Error: Try the command: umount" 1>&2; false' alias you='if test "$EUID" = 0 ; then /sbin/yast2 online_update ; else su - -c "/sbin/yast2 online_update" ; fi' cer@Telcontar:~> cer@Telcontar:~> l .alias -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 116 Jul 3 2006 .alias cer@Telcontar:~> I did not put it there.
What you were supposed to look at were the dates of the origin of the copy and the destination.
Obviously, but the context registering in my brain was incomplete for failure to understand the presence of the trailing asterisk.
You could have guessed. Humans are known to be able to compute properly with missing information. Computers do not ;-p -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)