On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Chad Perrin wrote:
> Khepri wrote:
> > So, is there any easy way to tell which files are binary and which are
> > ascii? I notice in this microdistro tht the Perl scripts are listed as
> > executbles as indicated by their color (ansi I guess)
>
> ls -l
>
> The -l switch for the ls command shows a "long" listing format which
> includes file permissions. That will tell you who can execute what, as
> well as who can read and write what.
Are you equating ascii/binary with not executable/executable?
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