Re: Problem dereferencing with ls -L

[(Jerry Heyman) <jerry@dev.tivoli.com>]

On 17 July 2001 at 14:02, Steve Jorgensen <jorgens@coho.net> wrote:
> When I run ls -L /usr/bin/awk, I get /usr/bin/awk.  Similarly, if I enter 
> ls -L /usr/bin/awk.exe, I get /usr/bin/awk.exe.  If, however, I enter ls -l 
> /usr/bin/awk, it tells me that /usr/bin/awk -> gawk.exe.  Why doesn't ls -L 
> show me the dereferenced file info?

Unless I misunderstand the question, the -L flag says follow any
symlinks and show me the file that I've requested.  Which means that
if foo is symlinked to bar and you do an:

ls -L foo

You will see foo on the output

-l is the long listing and if its a symlink will tell you what the
link is pointing to.  If you do:

ls -lL /usr/bin/*awk*

You should see all the different names for awk in the directory and
their size/date will all be the same, because they are actually giving
you the size of the same file.

jerry
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