I cannot reproduce the behaviour you reported. davee@equinox:~/tmp/aaaa$ ls -lR .: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 davee users 4096 Nov 5 13:24 bar drwxr-xr-x 2 davee users 4096 Nov 5 13:24 foo
./bar: total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 davee users 23 Nov 5 13:24 afile1 -rw-r--r-- 1 davee users 0 Nov 5 13:22 baz -rw-r--r-- 1 davee users 21 Nov 5 13:24 file1 ./foo: total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 davee users 18 Nov 5 13:24 afile1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 davee users 6 Nov 5 13:23 baz -> ../baz -rw-r--r-- 1 davee users 15 Nov 5 13:24 file1 $ colordiff -r foo bar diff -r foo/afile1 bar/afile1 1c1 < Something is here --- > Something else is here diff: foo/baz: No such file or directory diff -r foo/file1 bar/file1 1c1 < This is a file --- > This is another file What platform/OS/etc. does this happen on? Apart from not being able to reproduce the issue it does seem like a *very* unusual scenario where deliberately-broken links have been introduced. Dave. -- Dave Ewart [email protected]

