even if you all considered assuming -A is good for the superuser,
where on Earth is the opposite option that cancels -A effect?!
"Some historical implementations of the ls utility show all entries in
a directory except dot and dot-dot when a superuser invokes ls without
specifying the -a option. When "normal" users invoke ls without
specifying -a, they should not see information about any files with
names beginning with a period unless they were named as file
operands."
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/ls.html
Cheers,
Antonio Huete
2012/9/13 [email protected] <[email protected]>:
hi,
it was just discovered that /bin/ls (without arguments)
if called by root-user
lists ".dotted" files
(while expected to hide ".dotted" files unless -A specified)
even more surprising is
man ls
that clearly says: "-A is always set for superuser"
(which is absolutely peculiar!)
WHY????????????????????????
