type discriminating directory listing

Root Boy Jim rbj at dsys.icst.nbs.gov
Wed May 17 02:17:54 AEST 1989


? From: Guy Harris <guy at auspex.auspex.com>

? >How about "ls -F", which (on BSD) marks subdirectories with a trailing
? >"/" and symlinks with a trailing "@"?

Yeah, but what about symbolic links to directorys? They also come out
with trailing `/'s. Better would be trailing `\'s, to distinguish them.

BTW, Sun's `ls -lR' works dirrerently than 4.3 BSD. One follows
symbolic links and the other does not. Why the change?

My example above may be wrong. Perhaps it is the behaviour of `ls -R'
that exhibits different behaviour. In any case, something changed.

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