Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> This point I can agree with. --group-directories-first is relatively new,
> and since it is currently silent about behavior on links, I have no
> problem with changing that behavior; however, I would insist that if we
> make a change, we add test cases a
Linda Walsh wrote:
It would be inconsistent with the proprietary OS's behavior
after which the option was modeled. Is that logical?
Believe me, I understand wanting to see symlinks to dirs grouped
with dirs, but this isn't how it's done in explorer and doesn't seem
consistent. I wouldn
Eric Blake wrote:
Additionally, IIRC, one of the reasons that --group-directories-first was
added was to mimic default behavior of a certain 'dir' program popular on
proprietary systems, but those systems did not have symlinks, so there
really is no prior art on how ls should behave on symlinks-t
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According to Bert Wesarg on 2/12/2008 9:50 AM:
|> Thanks for the patch, but a change in behavior like that
|> requires some serious justification.
| I read the thread in the mail archive. Eric Blake questioned the symlink
| behavior in the first reply
Jim Meyering wrote:
Bert Wesarg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
With the --group-directories-first option, ls shows directories on top of all
non directory entries, but IMHO symlinks to directories should be handle as
directories as well.
Thanks for the patch, but a change in behavior like that
req
Bert Wesarg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With the --group-directories-first option, ls shows directories on top of all
> non directory entries, but IMHO symlinks to directories should be handle as
> directories as well.
Thanks for the patch, but a change in behavior like that
requires some serious
With the --group-directories-first option, ls shows directories on top of all
non directory entries, but IMHO symlinks to directories should be handle as
directories as well.
Regards.
Bert
2008-02-12 Bert Wesarg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ls --group-directories-first: symlinks to dirs are di