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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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