Re: ls operation changed

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 01:51 01 Mar 2003, Vidiot <brown mrvideo vidiot com> wrote:
| >Do you know about the -d flag?  You might try ls -laGd, that
| >might get you the behavior you want. 
| 
| Yep, neither that or -L made any difference.

Well sure. -L turns _on_ the behaviour you see.

Sure you're running the real ls, and not some evil presupplied alias?
Does "/bin/ls" behave the same as "ls"?
What does the "alias" command recite?

| There must be something in my environment that is causing this then.
| But what?  The man page has no info on this.  Please don't say to use
| "info ls" to see if there is anything in there.  I HATE info.

Me too. Wrote myself a parser and integrated it with a man command
so you can page info like real man pages. See here if you like:

	http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/#s-text-info2x

The man command is here:

	http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/scripts/man

Cheers,
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Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        cs zip com au    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/

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