This is hilarious -- a program whose basic form has existed since around the first moon landing has either you or me very confused.
On 4/27/05, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > #ls as > > af af is the contents of the directory. > > #ls -l as > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Apr 27 19:38 as -> ad as is not the contents of the directory. Atari! > It is supposed to behave that way. But your statement confuses me. > What other way would you expect it to behave? What documentation and > for which program of mkdir, touch, ln or ls would you change? I would change "ls as" to list the symlink, and document "ls as/". Or I would change "ls -l as" to list the directory and get rid of the slash trick. It's miai. Another option is to document that ls and ls -l are nonorthogonal for reasons that are mysterious. :-) > This is a serious question. The above is in exactly the order of your > example. What did you expect? What was unclear? Lemme throw that back at you! Is this a ko? > Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nice to meet you. P.S. to others: atari, miai, and ko are just jokes for Bob; please ignore them.
