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Re: ls -Rd behavior
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John Cowan |
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Re: ls -Rd behavior |
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Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:35:28 -0400 |
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Eric Blake scripsit:
> Since POSIX states "The use of -d with -R produces unspecified results,"
> should
> we change ls to reject -Rd and -dR as invalid option combinations rather than
> the current behavior of ignoring -R when -d is present?
Better yet, why not DTRT?
-R is about what objects ls visits; -d is about what it prints when it
visits them. -Rd, then, should visit every object in the tree below
each argument, printing the same information about each of them
(rather than treating directories specially).
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