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Re: Symlink grouping with --group-directories-first in ls
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: Symlink grouping with --group-directories-first in ls |
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Thu, 27 Dec 2018 06:37:41 -0800 |
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On 23/12/18 19:35, Amin Bandali wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently discovered ls’s --group-directories-first option to list
> directories before files. It seems that the option treats all symlinks
> as files, and thus doesn’t group symlinks to directories with the actual
> directories on the top.
>
> It would be great if ls had an option to group directory symlinks with
> the real directories when --group-directories-first is specified.
Good point.
It probably should just do that with no other options.
The attached implements that.
cheers,
Pádraig
ls-group-symlinks.patch
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