[GRLUG] What's the diff?

[L. V. Lammert]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2014, Dave Chiodo wrote:

> 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)
>
Bingo - thanks! When did it change? I guess there's a chance I only recall
doing an ls on a symlink on BSD, but the fact that does work the same on
older Linuxes would seem to indicate that it had changed between five and
2-3 years ago.

	Lee