On 23/09/13 17:14, inode0 wrote:
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
Good, that is the essence of what I wanted to know. It's just
information and apparently can be used to colorize a listing. Those have
puzzled me for a long time.
Thanks to all,
Bob
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