tag 12664 notabug
thanks
On 10/17/2012 12:01 PM, Vamp898 wrote:
> Documentation says the following:
>
> -d, --directory :: list directory entries instead of contents, and do not
> dereference symbolic links
>
> and
>
> -R, --recursive :: list subdirectories recursively
>
> And this is what i get when i use ls -dR /
>
> $ ls -dR /
> /
Thanks for the report. However, POSIX require -d to treat directories
as files rather than directories, and says that mixing -d and -R is
unspecified:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ls.html
> -d
> Do not follow symbolic links named as operands unless the -H or -L
> options are specified. Do not treat directories differently than other types
> of files. The use of -d with -R produces unspecified results.
In GNU, we take this to mean that -d always overrides -R, because
recursion makes sense only if you treat a directory as a directory, but
-d says to treat it as a file instead.
If you need to mix recursion with listing of directories, consider using
find(1), as in:
find . -type d
or with specific ls options:
find . -type d -exec ls -ld {} +
As such, I'm closing this as not a bug; but you are free to still add
comments or questions to this conversation.
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