Documentation says the following: -d, --directory :: list directory entries instead of contents, and do not dereference symbolic links
and -R, --recursive :: list subdirectories recursively And this is what i get when i use ls -dR / $ ls -dR / / I even tried ls -d --recursiv -R -R -R -RRRRRRRRRRR / / The -R switch stand-alone works fine Im using the coreutils 8.19 package from Archlinux