On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
<bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net> wrote:
Are you saying that the "b" is merely to control the color
in a listing? I
view everything in black and white.
Does it have any other effect?
It is informative, it tells you what sort of "file" you are looking
at. No different than
# ls -ld /usr/bin
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 69632 Sep 23 09:20 /usr/bin
which begins with a 'd' telling you that /usr/bin is a directory.
Is there a mknod command to remove it, the man page does not make it
clear
to me.
There is no need to remove it. Just don't worry about the first
character displayed if you aren't interested in it.
John