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)?
It's not a bug; it is the way links work. A link between files lets
you reference the second (linked-to) file by the name of the first
(linked from) file.
The same thing happens with hard links.
For symlinks, you find the linked-to file by "ls -l", for example.\
This isn't shell-specific, since it's "ls" that is doing the work.
The shell dutifully passes 'foop' to "ls".
Regards,
Justin
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