Re: ls operation changed

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 00:55:36 -0600 (CST)
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

Not here. It shows the symlink and to what it is pointing.

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