Re: ls operation changed

["J. M. Brenner" <doom kzsu stanford edu>]

Vidiot <brown mrvideo vidiot com> wrote: 

> I've been noticing this for a while now and it is damn annoying.  The ls
> command traverses symbolic links if the symbolic link is used as the filename
> given to ls.  For example, if I do:
> 
> 	ls -laG sym_filename
> 
> and sym_filename points to a directory named /usr/symlinkname, the contents
> of /usr/symlinkname is displayed instead of displaying
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 brown         16 Sep 15 02:24 sym_filename -> /usr/symlinkname

Hm... doesn't seem to work this way for me.  

ln -s /tmp temper
ls -laG /tmp 

  (lists contents of /tmp)

ls -laG temper

  shows just the one line:
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 doom           14 Feb 28 23:25 temper -> /home/doom/tmp

I've got the Gnu fileutils version 4.1 (or so "ls --version" says).

Do you know about the -d flag?  You might try ls -laGd, that
might get you the behavior you want. 

ls -laGd /tmp

  drwxrwxrwt    4 root         4096 Feb 28 23:09 /tmp