Small help and recommendations

[Karl Goetz]

Les Gray wrote:
> On Friday 13 July 2007 19:23:25 Trias wrote:
>> Ok i'm going ok so far here's my current focus.  Just humour me.  Pretend
>> you were a noob once :D
> 

Never! ;)

>> 4) When i type ls which is one of the very few commands i remember from
>> unix i get coloured file names.  Is there a place to find out what these
>> colour codes mean?
> 
> I think you can set them in the terminal's preferences, but don't quote me on 
> that. It's really more about eye candy, I think, but it does help you easily 
> identify how the access permissions are set on your files eg. bright green 
> usually means all users can read/write/execute that file.

run `ls -lh` and see :)
run it in a few directories, and you'll probably see most of the
variations pretty quickly.
kk


> 


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Karl Goetz
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