Re: ls man page

[Jim Meyering]

shane kennedy <address@hidden> wrote:
> man page for ls describes -F & -p flags as appending
> one of the following indicators: /=@|
> it does not describe what the indicators mean

That's discussed in the authoritative documentation.
At the bottom of the man page, it says this:

------------------------------
SEE ALSO
       The full documentation for ls is maintained as a  Texinfo  manual.   If
       the  info and ls programs are properly installed at your site, the com-
       mand

              info coreutils ls
------------------------------

And that has a decent explanation:

  `-F'
  `--classify'
  `--indicator-style=classify'
       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, 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.

  `-p'
  `--file-type'
  `--indicator-style=file-type'
       Append a character to each file name indicating the file type.
       This is like `-F', except that executables are not marked.