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what is the meaning of the * as shown in picture

Can someone tell me the significance of * sign after a file name ?

Rui F Ribeiro
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Dhrubo Bhattacharjee
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    [Please don't post screenshots of text](http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4086/psa-please-dont-post-images-of-text). Copy and paste the text itself and format it as code with the `{}` icon in the editor. – cas Aug 06 '17 at 11:28
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    See [What do the symbols displayed by ls -F mean?](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/82357/what-do-the-symbols-displayed-by-ls-f-mean?rq=1) (you probably have `ls` aliased to `ls -F` in your shell) – steeldriver Aug 06 '17 at 11:46

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this is signify that the file is an executable, in other words the file have the right of execution, it's a script or a binary.

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