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- From: gaumondp@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Gaumond Pierre)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Bug in ls -L ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.190234.25355@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 19:02:34 GMT
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- Organization: Universite de Montreal
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- if I do (on csh):
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- % ls -l /usr/bin/vi
- l--------- 1 root sys 2 Mar 29 1992 /usr/bin/vi -> ex
- % ls -L /usr/bin/vi
- /usr/bin/vi
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- The man pages for ls say about "-L" parameter:
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- -L If the file is a symbolic link, list the file that the link
- references.
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- I should have obtained "/usr/bin/ex" with the ls -L commabd. Is it a bug?
- Is there something I did not understand?
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- Thanks for any information.
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- Pierre Gaumond. gaumondp@ERE.UMontreal.CA
- Services Informatiques, Universite de Montreal.
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