I'm running the zsh shell in emacs. When I run ls I get a = at the end of .sock files. What does the = mean? Is it unique to unix sockets?
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
686k169 gold badges1434 silver badges1929 bronze badges
asked Jan 1 '14 at 16:29
Add a comment
|
According to the coreutils documentation under --classify (alias -F),
= is for sockets:
Append a character to each file name indicating the file type. Also, for regular files that are executable, append ‘*’. The file type indicators are ‘/’ for directories, ‘@’ for symbolic links, ‘|’ for FIFOs, ‘=’ for sockets, ‘>’ for doors, and nothing for regular files. Do not follow symbolic links listed on the command line unless the --dereference-command-line (-H), --dereference (-L), or --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir options are specified.
-
Neato, thank you. Never heard of doors as a formal name before. – Edgar Aroutiounian Jan 1 '14 at 16:35
-
2and if you didn't actually type
--classifyor--indicator-style=classify, it was probably added by an alias. – Robin Green Jan 1 '14 at 16:36 -
1@EdgarAroutiounian Doors are a Solaris feature, not widely adopted, and in particular not available on Linux. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Jan 1 '14 at 23:08
