Hello Steve,
this came in to the Debian BTS, cf.
<https://bugs.debian.org/934520> as well as the full list at
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=tree>.
JFYI and for your consideration.
Cheers,
Flo
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Package: tree
Version: 1.8.0-1+b1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
tree introduced with its version 1.8 a --filefrom option, so a tree can be
build from a file.
There's a problem if the file contains a symbolic link.
Let's take the following test.tree file :
$ cat /tmp/test.tree
/tmp/test
/tmp/test/status -> /var/lib/logrotate/status
/tmp/test/t1
/tmp/test/t2
$ tree --fromfile /tmp/test.tree produces the following output :
/tmp/test.tree
????????? tmp
????????? test
????????? status ->
??????? ????????? var
??????? ????????? lib
??????? ????????? logrotate
??????? ????????? status
????????? t1
????????? t2
The symbolic link target (->) is treated like a subtree of the symlink,
which is wrong.
I had rather expected this outout :
$ tree /tmp/test
/tmp/test
????????? status -> /var/lib/logrotate/status
????????? t1
????????? t2
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages tree depends on:
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
tree recommends no packages.
tree suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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