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To: redhat-list@listman.redhat.com From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> Subject: Re: ls operation changed Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 20:57:30 +1100 On 01:51 01 Mar 2003, Vidiot <brown@mrvideo.vidiot.com> wrote: | >Do you know about the -d flag? You might try ls -laGd, that | >might get you the behavior you want. | | Yep, neither that or -L made any difference. Well sure. -L turns _on_ the behaviour you see. Sure you're running the real ls, and not some evil presupplied alias? Does "/bin/ls" behave the same as "ls"? What does the "alias" command recite? | There must be something in my environment that is causing this then. | But what? The man page has no info on this. Please don't say to use | "info ls" to see if there is anything in there. I HATE info. Me too. Wrote myself a parser and integrated it with a man command so you can page info like real man pages. See here if you like: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/#s-text-info2x The man command is here: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/scripts/man === To: redhat-list@listman.redhat.com From: Dave Ihnat <ignatz@dminet.com> Subject: Re: ls operation changed Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 08:34:28 -0600 On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 01:51:32AM -0600, Vidiot wrote: > Please don't say to use "info ls" to see if there is anything in > there. I HATE info. IMHO that is a horrible program. It is extremely > difficult to traverse. It is not obvious how to get around that thing. > Whomever designed that program had a sick sense of humor. I agree; probably was an Emacs user, too. Try 'pinfo', unless you hate Lynx, too. ===