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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org