On 2019/07/15 00:01, hoffelm...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I am using ls from the cureutils 8.31 on arch linux (5.2.0 x86_64) and > think it has a bug/inconsistant in printing an file type indicator (-F) > while using the long listing format (-l). > > > If I use `ls -F ~` I get the following output: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Desktop/ Downloads/ Nextcloud/ Pictures/ Templates/ Workspace/ > Documents/ Music@ OneDrive/ Public/ Videos/ > > > As the Music directory in ~ is a symbolic link to another folder an @ > is appended. > > > But when using `ls -Fl ~` the output is > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > lrwxrwxrwx 1 rxo users 15 8. Jul 08:07 Music -> OneDrive/Music// > ---- In this case, ls -Fl is showing you the result of the link expansion and the focus is on the 'target', i.e., the OneDrive/Music. The classifier character is being shown only for the target -- not the source of the symlink.
In a different way, in the top listing the '@' in the 1st ls is telling you that Music is a symlink, in the 2nd listing, the '->' tells you that the same thing, that Music was(is) a symlink, so the '@' would be superfluous. Instead, it puts a classifier on the target so you know what type it is. One could think of it as inconsistent -- but only if remembering that inconsistent options (different options) were given as well.