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Re: ls -L [some symbolic linked file] not working

On Sep 19, 2006, at 6:32 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
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

I ran into this exact issue a few days ago. My solution was to use the "readlink" utility on the link. I'm not sure if this is bash- specific or not.

-- Gwynne, daughter of the Code
"This whole world is an asylum for the incurable."


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