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Bochun Bai commented on HDFS-1788: ---------------------------------- Waiting for HADOOP-7360 is a good idea. And cat/tail commands is not working, this is the motivation I involved. I feel sorry about not knowing the assignee is still working on this. It has been assigned for 50 days, and no more progress published. Next time I will contact before started, thanks daryn. > FsShell ls: Show symlinks properties > ------------------------------------ > > Key: HDFS-1788 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1788 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: tools > Reporter: Jonathan Eagles > Assignee: John George > Priority: Minor > Attachments: HDFS-1788.patch > > > ls FsShell command implementation has been consistent with the linux > implementations of ls \-l. With the addition of symlinks, I would expect the > ability to show file type 'd' for directory, '\-' for file, and 'l' for > symlink. In addition, following the linkname entry for symlinks, I would > expect the ability to show "\-> <link target>". In linux, the default is to > the the properties of the link and not of the link target. In linux, '-L' > option allows for the dereferencing of symlinks to show link target > properties, but it is not the default. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira