File attributes

[Glenn]

At least I think that is what it would be called. I've noticed asterisks after file extensions on a few files. This is the first time I've ever seen something like this. What is their purpose please?

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-rwxrwxr-x  1 glenn glenn    142 May 21 16:58 .ck.sh*


This file was copied over from another partition / distribution (Fedora). It is used to start conky once the desktop is up.

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[glenn@mageia ~>$ cat .ck.sh
#!/bin/bash
sleep 10 &&
conky -c /etc/conky/conky.conf -q
# .ck.sh for the Toshiba laptop while running
# Mageia Linux. Last edited 05.21.11


[jkerr82508]

It means that the file is executable - it can be run as a "program". Your quoted script file is an example of such a file.

Jim

[Glenn]

No kidding? OK. I must then assume that the asterisk probably wasn't there until I ran chmod +x .ck.sh

Thank you for the reply.