Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:56:24 +0400 (MSD) From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" <babolo@links.ru> To: sheldonh@uunet.co.za (Sheldon Hearn) Cc: alex@big.endian.de, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/17924: ld -lF bug Message-ID: <200004121556.TAA08605@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <8608.955461193@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> from "Sheldon Hearn" at "Apr 11, 0 03:53:13 pm"
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Sheldon Hearn writes: > On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:24:11 +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: > > What I really wonder is is the difference between ls -ldF Mail and > > Mail/ then. > > > > The manpage says, it adds an /, but if this / is already there, why > > should it add one more? > > -F Display a slash (/) immediately after each pathname that is a > directory, [...] > > You specified a directory name ending in a slash. The trailing slash in > a directory name is legal. The ls(1) utility takes this legal > representation of the directory's name and adds a slash to indicate that > it's a directory. > > It's logical in a pleasantly twisted sort of way. :-) Just curious: 0skiv~(138)>/bin/ls -dl Mail// Mail/// Mail//// Mail///// Mail////// Mail/////// Mail//////// drwx------ 4 babolo wheel 512 30 อมา 15:09 Mail// drwx------ 4 babolo wheel 512 30 อมา 15:09 Mail/// drwx------ 4 babolo wheel 512 30 อมา 15:09 Mail//// drwx------ 4 babolo wheel 512 30 อมา 15:09 Mail///// drwx------ 4 babolo wheel 512 30 อมา 15:09 Mail////// drwx------ 4 babolo wheel 512 30 อมา 15:09 Mail/////// drwx------ 4 babolo wheel 512 30 อมา 15:09 Mail//////// 0skiv~(139)> -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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