Bug#4745: ls: --dereference doesn't

[jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl (J.H.M.Dassen)]

Package: fileutils
Version: 3.13-4

Both 'ls --help' and the fileutils info file document options
        `-L'
        `--dereference'
             List the files linked to by symbolic links instead of listing the
             contents of the links.

However, neither of these appear to work:


Script started on Thu Oct 10 21:50:49 1996
> mkdir blub^M
> cd blub^M
> touch foo^M
> ln -s foo bar^M
> ls -l^M
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 ray      users           3 Oct 10 21:51 bar -> foo
-rw-r--r--   1 ray      users           0 Oct 10 21:50 foo
> ls bar^M
bar
> ls -L bar^M
bar
> ls --dereference bar^M
bar
> ^^Hexit

Script done on Thu Oct 10 21:51:23 1996


>From the description, 'ls -L bar' aka 'ls --dereference bar' should yield
'foo', not 'bar'.

Ray
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