Re: `ls' misbehaving?

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On Thursday 08 May 2003 11:14, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
> Here's the excerpt from the man page for `ls':
>
>    -L, --dereference
>           when showing file information for a symbolic link, show informa-
>           tion for the file the link references rather than for  the  link
>           itself
>
> What am I missing?

I'm seeing exactly what -L says you'll see.  Instead of the file attributes of 
the link itself, you're being shown the attributes of the file the link links 
to.  NOTABUG.

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