>On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 11:12, Vidiot wrote:
>> Let me start out by saying that I think that ls is not working the way
>> I expect it.
>
>>
>> Sorry, not the expected behaviour. I do not want it to traverse the link.
>> So, to the man page I went. I see a -L option. so I try it:
>>
>> total 0
>> drwxrwxr-x 2 root users 4096 Dec 4 10:59 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Dec 4 10:59 ..
>>
>>
>> Same damn result. Yes, the directory is currently empty.
>>
>> I am running RH 7.1 and want ls to return to the old behaviour of not
>> traversing symbolic links, or have an option that works.
>
>I don't think this is a link traversla thing as much as a directory
>traversal thing. what does ls -dl do for you?
>Bret
Semantics :-) You are still traversing the link to show the contents of the
directory at the other end. Either way, the effect was the same :-)
BRN <9> ls -ld mysql
total 0
drwxrwxr-x 2 root users 4096 Dec 4 10:59 .
I should have shown that example in the first posting as well.
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