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What is the significance of the asterisk in the file listing results?
I have noticed that some of my files have an asterisk at end.
Does the asterisk at the end have any particular significance? I think they are mostly executable and displayed in green by the ls ...
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Best way to list 100 first files in a directory sorted by time
What would be the best way to list 100 first files in a directory sorted by the created timestamp (oldest first). The directory is quite large (around 100000 files). ls piped to head takes an awful ...
