File name classifications (need answer ASAP thanx)

[David A. Sinck]

\_ SMTP quoth Wank8734@aol.com on 12/3/2002 12:29 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ I am trying to figure out what a classification such as @ or * means at the end of a file name. here are a few examples....
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\_ allcm*
\_ allec@
\_ control/
\_ 
\_ if you could tell me what those *, @, and / means at the end of a
\_ file it would be greatly appreciated. Other marks I know of are |
\_ and = thanks again

man ls

But, to be brief, files denoted by ending in

* executable
@ symlink (soft, possibly hard too)
/ dir
= socket
| named pipe
' ' rootkit produced file  :-)

David