Re: ls bug

[Andreas Schwab]

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> when doing an ls, I do not get the subdirectories' content listed. When
> doing ls -R, I get it listed, and this is fine so.
> When doing "ls in*", I do get the subdirectories' content listed, although
> I do not want this, and I cannot toggle this off with "ls -R in*".

"-R" is not a toggle.  But note that it does more that just list the
subdirectories' contents.

  -R, --recursive            list subdirectories recursively

> This is very hindering for me, and I cannot find that a solution is
> documented.

  -d, --directory            list directory entries instead of contents,
                               and do not dereference symbolic links

If you think of "ls" being the same as "ls ." this behaviour becomes
pretty obvious.

Andreas.

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