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On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
<bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Are you saying that the "b" is merely to control the color in a listing? I
> view everything in black and white.
>
> Does it have any other effect?

It is informative, it tells you what sort of "file" you are looking
at. No different than

# ls -ld /usr/bin
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 69632 Sep 23 09:20 /usr/bin

which begins with a 'd' telling you that /usr/bin is a directory.

> Is there a mknod command to remove it, the man page does not make it clear
> to me.

There is no need to remove it. Just don't worry about the first
character displayed if you aren't interested in it.

John
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