Re: unix file attributes: general question

2003-07-21 Thread Haines Brown
> > Is there any other attribute information stored or potentially stored > > in the file? Applications apparently can detect a document's file > > type, so that information must be held somewhere. Is information about > > the document's MIME type and charset also held? > > No. Applications that d

Re: unix file attributes: general question

2003-07-21 Thread Dave Howorth
I thought that the command lsattrib would display all this information, but apparently no such command or utility exists. Is there something that will display all the information about a file, going beyond the ls -l command? 'stat' (in the stat package) shows you all the metadata. 'ls' can be persu

Re: unix file attributes: general question

2003-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:54:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I know little about unix file attributes, and wonder if someone would > point me to an introduction to the subject. > > When a file is saved, I specify its name and where to save it. I know > from use of the ls -l command that there's

unix file attributes: general question

2003-07-21 Thread Haines Brown
I know little about unix file attributes, and wonder if someone would point me to an introduction to the subject. When a file is saved, I specify its name and where to save it. I know from use of the ls -l command that there's additional information about ownership, permission, last saved date dat