Hello, the commands below reveal an incorrect behavior of GNU ls:
$ mkdir -p b/c
$ ls a b
ls: a: No such file or directory
c
Other flavors of the ls utility would have answered:
ls: a: No such file or directory
b:
c
as one would expect.
Here is a simple patch that should fix it:
--- ls.c~ Wed Apr 18 21:27:52 2001
+++ ls.c Wed Apr 18 21:27:46 2001
@@ -867,7 +867,6 @@
exit_status = 0;
dir_defaulted = 1;
- print_dir_name = 1;
pending_dirs = 0;
i = decode_switches (argc, argv);
@@ -902,7 +901,14 @@
clear_files ();
if (i < argc)
- dir_defaulted = 0;
+ {
+ dir_defaulted = 0;
+ if (argc - i > 1)
+ print_dir_name = 1;
+ else
+ print_dir_name=0;
+ }
+
for (; i < argc; i++)
{
gobble_file (argv[i], unknown, 1, "");
@@ -929,8 +935,6 @@
if (pending_dirs)
DIRED_PUTCHAR ('\n');
}
- else if (pending_dirs && pending_dirs->next == 0)
- print_dir_name = 0;
while (pending_dirs)
{
Cheers,
Stéphane
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