I recently had cause to try and use "ls -L file" to find the linked
file. Its not working (I wanted to use the return string in a shell
program).
Here is what I did to test this:
$ cd /tmp
$ cat > goop
hello world
$ ln -s /tmp/goop /tmp/foop
$ file foop
foop: symbolic link to `/tmp/goop'
$ ls -L foop
foop
$ ls -L goop
goop
Is this a known problem (ie should I create a bug report on it)?
I think that this is the way it's meant to work:
$ ls -l gah
lrwxr-xr-x 1 peter peter 2 Sep 20 07:27 gah -> hw
$ ls -Lld gah
drwxr-xr-x 12 peter peter 408 Sep 19 12:35 gah
Peter
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