Re: ls -lF dereferences symbolic links - ?bug or feature?

2005-05-20 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric J Haywiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would expect the 2nd command to behave like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/coreutils-5.3.0/src/ls -lF total 1 -rwxr-xr-x exe* lrwxrwxrwx n@ - nonexistant lrwxrwxrwx x@ - exe I can see your point: that would be logical, and it seems to be

Re: ls -lF dereferences symbolic links - ?bug or feature?

2005-05-18 Thread Eric J Haywiser
Paul, Thank you for your reply. Eric J Haywiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently ls -lF classifies the link reference rather than the link itself, while ls -F classfies the link. On Thu, 12 May 2005, Paul Eggert wrote: Paul I don't observe this behavior with coreutils 5.3.0 ls. Paul

Re: ls -lF dereferences symbolic links - ?bug or feature?

2005-05-12 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric J Haywiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently ls -lF classifies the link reference rather than the link itself, while ls -F classfies the link. I don't observe this behavior with coreutils 5.3.0 ls. Perhaps the bug has been fixed since your version? Please try: