I'm running fileutils 4.1-10 under Debian unstable and
noticed the treatment of the -F flag changes when used
FILE specifications. Given:
$ /bin/ls -l
total 4
drwxrwsr-x 2 dlc dlc 4096 Apr 12 13:08 dir
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dlc dlc 0 Apr 12 13:08 file
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlc dlc 3 Apr 12 13:08 symdir -> dir
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlc dlc 4 Apr 12 13:08 symfile -> file
Then:
$ /bin/ls -F
dir/ file symdir@ symfile@
identifies the symlinks with "@" suffixes as I
expect, but
$ /bin/ls -Fd *
dir/ file symdir/ symfile@
and:
$ /bin/ls -F *
symfile@ text
dir:
symdir:
now follow the symlink to the directory (but not the
file) and cause me to think the type of symdir is d,
not l.
I cannot recall if this is changed behavior or not.
I have used ls -F for over a decade and have never
had my nose rubbed in this before. Has something
changed? Is this POSIX-compliant behavior?
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