z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command ... - Christian Grothoff

ls-F built-in command for tcsh: List files
Format
ls-F [-switch ...] [file ...]
Description
In the tcsh shell, ls-F lists files like ls -F, but works much faster. It identifies each
type of special file in the listing with a special character:
/ Directory
* Executable
# Block device
% Character device
| Named pipe
= Socket
@ Symbolic link
If the listlinks shell variable is set, symbolic links are identified in more detail (only,
of course, on systems which have them):
@ Symbolic link to a non-directory
> Symbolic link to a directory
& Symbolic link to nowhere
listlinks also slows down ls-F.
If you use files which are set-up as follows:
#creating a file
touch file1
#creating a symbolic link to the file
ln -s file1 link1
#creating a directory
mkdir dir1
#creating a symbolic link to the directory
ln -s dir1 linkdir1
#creating a symbolic link to a file that doesn’t exist
ln -s noexist linktonowhere
when you issue an ls-F with listlinks unset, you will get the following output:
> ls-F
dir1/ file1 link1@ linkdir1@ linktonowhere@
>
with listlinks set:
> set listlinks
> ls-F
dir1/ file1 link1@ linkdir1> linktonowhere&
>
tcsh: lsF
If the listflags shell variable is set to x, a or A, or any combination thereof (for
example, xA), they are used as flags to ls-F, making it act like ls -xF, ls -Fa, ls -FA
or a combination ls -FxA. On z/OS, ls -C is the default. However, on machines
where ls -C is not the default, ls-F acts like ls -CF, unless listflags contains an x,
in which case it acts like ls -xF.
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