From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 30 21:34:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hand.dotat.at (sfo-gw.covalent.net [207.44.198.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5185C37B4CF for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:34:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from fanf by hand.dotat.at with local (Exim 3.15 #3) id 13qU46-0003eF-00; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 05:34:30 +0000 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 05:34:30 +0000 From: Tony Finch To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who broke "ls" in FreeBSD? and why? Message-ID: <20001031053430.X4137@hand.dotat.at> References: <20001024081136.K1604@puck.firepipe.net> <12367.972372237@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20001024081136.K1604@puck.firepipe.net> <200010241757.LAA17136@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200010241757.LAA17136@harmony.village.org> Organization: Covalent Technologies, Inc Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > >For normal users, ls -a lists all files, not counting . and .., but >for root it does list all files. No, it always lists all files. >ls -A lists all files for normal users, but omits . and .. for root. No, it always lists all files except for "." and "..". -A is on by default for root with most versions of ls, notably not including GNU ls. Tony. -- en oeccget g mtcaa f.a.n.finch v spdlkishrhtewe y dot@dotat.at eatp o v eiti i d. fanf@covalent.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message