>On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 11:12, Vidiot wrote:
>> Let me start out by saying that I think that ls  is not working the way
>> I expect it.
>
>> 
>> Sorry, not the expected behaviour.  I do not want it to traverse the link.
>> So, to the man page I went.  I see a -L option.  so I try it:
>> 
>> total 0
>> drwxrwxr-x    2 root     users        4096 Dec  4 10:59 .
>> drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root         4096 Dec  4 10:59 ..
>> 
>> 
>> Same damn result.  Yes, the directory is currently empty.
>> 
>> I am running RH 7.1 and want ls to return to the old behaviour of not
>> traversing symbolic links, or have an option that works.
>
>I don't think this is a link traversla thing as much as a directory
>traversal thing.  what does ls -dl do for you?
>Bret

Semantics :-)  You are still traversing the link to show the contents of the
directory at the other end.  Either way, the effect was the same :-)

BRN <9> ls -ld mysql
total 0
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     users        4096 Dec  4 10:59 .


I should have shown that example in the first posting as well.

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