On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 8:50 AM, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/06/2013, Νικόλαος Κούρας <nikos.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> root@nikos [/]# ls -l /usr/bin/python* >> -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4864 Feb 22 02:00 /usr/bin/python* >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Apr 5 20:34 /usr/bin/python2 -> python* >> -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4864 Feb 22 02:00 /usr/bin/python2.6* >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1418 Feb 22 02:00 /usr/bin/python2.6-config* > [... python3 line removed for clarity ...] >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Apr 5 20:35 /usr/bin/python-config -> >> python2.6-config* > > Apart from the bizarre trailing '*' characters which for which I have > no sane explanation...
I believe that indicates that his 'ls' is aliased to 'ls --classify', which puts * after executables (and / after directories, and @ after symlinks, also a few others). Not a problem. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list