On 01/06/2013, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 8:50 AM, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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.
Ah, old skool. I have seen that before now that you mention it. Thanks for the correction. I knew I didn't have all the answers, but felt that I'd try some pig wrestling anyway. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list