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Re: ls -i inefficiency
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: ls -i inefficiency |
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Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:11:58 -0800 |
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address@hidden (Eric Blake) writes:
> So do OpenBSD and Solaris warn when -L appears with an
> explicit listing of a broken link?
Solaris does. (Dunno about OpenBSD.) The distinction, I think, is
partly that "ls -L" merely reads ".", whereas "ls -L foo" must
dereference "foo" to see whether it is a directory.