Hi all,

I'm having troubles in Linux with verbs like dirtree and dirpath (defined in
dir.ijs), because a loop can occur when a directory is a symbolic link.
Is there an easy way in J to recognize Unix symbolic links?
File attributes, as returned by foreign 1!:0 or 1!:6, don't provide this
information: for directories, always the 'd' flag is set even if the
directory is just linked.
At the moment, my workaround is to use

2!:0 'ls -Al'

and to check if 'l' is the first character of each output line.

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