Package: coreutils
Version: 8.5-1
Severity: normal
Manual page of ls(1) reads:
-d, --directory
list directory entries instead of contents, and do not derefer-
ence symbolic links
"info ls" reads:
`-d'
`--directory'
List just the names of directories, as with other types of files,
rather than listing their contents. Do not follow symbolic links
listed on the command line unless the `--dereference-command-line'
(`-H'), `--dereference' (`-L'), or
`--dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir' options are specified.
None of these is helpful in understanding how the option is supposed
to work:
ls -d
ls -dR
ls -dr
ls --directory -R
ls --directory -r
ls --directory
=> They all just return '.'
After lot of Google, a miracle command syntax is found:
ls -d */
Please improve the documentation and give examples. Btw, the command
syntax "*/" is counterintuitive to rest of the ls(1) behavior:
ls -a vs. ls -d
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library
ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
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