[GRLUG] What's the diff?

[Dave Chiodo]

Say /home/user/link is a symlink.

on both systems, try

ls -l /home/user/link

vs

ls -l /home/user/link/

(notice the / at the end)


On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 4:40 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> If one does an ls on a symbolic link in BSD, it shows the files at the
> destination of that link; if one does an ls on a symbolic link on a
> current Linux system it shows the *link*, not the contents where the link
> points [assuming a directory, .. have not tried a file link].
>
> Something has changed in the Linux builds in the past few years [testing
> on an old CentOS box acts as expected]. What is the philosophy behind the
> change, and how would one show files at the target of a symlink now?
>
>         Thanks!
>
>         Lee
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