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bug#7433: ls: [manual] description for --directory is insufficient
From: |
Jari Aalto |
Subject: |
bug#7433: ls: [manual] description for --directory is insufficient |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:46:54 +0200 |
Package: coreutils
Version: 8.5-1
Severity: normal
[Forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/603895 ]
Manual page of ls(1) reads:
-d, --directory
list directory entries instead of contents, and do not derefer-
ence symbolic links
"info ls" reads:
`-d'
`--directory'
List just the names of directories, as with other types of files,
rather than listing their contents. Do not follow symbolic links
listed on the command line unless the `--dereference-command-line'
(`-H'), `--dereference' (`-L'), or
`--dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir' options are specified.
None of these is helpful in understanding how the option is supposed
to work:
ls -d
ls -dR
ls -dr
ls --directory -R
ls --directory -r
ls --directory
=> They all just return '.'
After lot of Google, a miracle command syntax is found:
ls -d */
Please improve the documentation and give examples. Btw, the command
syntax "*/" is counterintuitive to rest of the ls(1) behavior:
ls -a vs. ls -d
-- System Information
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT Prefers testing
APT policy: (990, testing) (500, unstable) (1, experimental)
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux picasso 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Sep 17 21:50:19 UTC 2010 x86_64
GNU/Linux
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
-- Versions of packages `coreutils depends on'.
Pre-Depends:
libacl1 2.2.49-4 This package contains the libacl.so dynamic l
libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Contains the runtime environment required by
libc6 2.11.2-7 Contains the standard libraries that are used
libselinux1 2.0.96-1 This package provides the shared libraries fo
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