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RE: Force "ls" to show .exe extension


> From:  Tom Robinson
> 
> If you don't want to specify the extension, can you specify as asterisk?
> 
> [3236 CBGSAS04:~/Documents]$ touch name.exe
> 
> [3237 CBGSAS04:~/Documents]$ ls -l name
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 cbg.tom Domain Users 0 Jan  7 09:34 name
> 
> [3238 CBGSAS04:~/Documents]$ ls -l name.exe
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 cbg.tom Domain Users 0 Jan  7 09:34 name.exe
> 

I often consider this to be broken behavior considering that I could have
both a name and name.exe file which would change the outcome of this
scenario.

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