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Date:      Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:53:13 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/17924: ld -lF bug 
Message-ID:  <8608.955461193@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:24:11 %2B0200." <20000411152411.A7193@cichlids.cichlids.com> 

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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. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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