Saturday, July 04, 2020

Re: ls -R bug?

I'll be explicit.

Did the OP run ls(1) as superuser? See -A flag in man ls

We have no idea.

> On Jul 4, 2020, at 3:44 PM, Brian Brombacher <brian@planetunix.net> wrote:
>
> 
>
>>> On Jul 4, 2020, at 3:38 PM, Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 19:59, Richard Ipsum <richardipsum@vx21.xyz> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Output of ls -R between OpenBSD and GNU coreutils seems to differ,
>>> OpenBSD ls -R will apparently list "hidden" directories like .git,
>>> whereas GNU coreutils will not, is this expected behaviour or a bug?
>>>
>>
>> Funny, because this seems to validate what you are reporting:
>>
>> oc@OpenBSD:~$ ls -R
>> oc-backup test
>>
>> ./.local/share:
>> xorg
>>
>> ./.local/share/xorg:
>> Xorg.0.log Xorg.0.log.old
>>
>> ./oc-backup:
>> docs mbox
>>
>> ./oc-backup/docs:
>> bgpd.conf man-todo patch.patch root-mail
>> bug oc-mail robots.txt sudo.log
>>
>> ./test:
>> dmesg fstab index.html uyiuyi
>> file fstab.dos ls.ps
>> file.bak fstab.tr openbsd-tips-wip
>> file.orig fstab.unix test.wav
>>
>> <note the ./.local/share and ./.local/share/xorg>
>>
>> However:
>>
>> oc@OpenBSD:~$ mkdir .hidden
>> oc@OpenBSD:~$ touch .hidden/test-file
>> oc@OpenBSD:~$ ls -R
>>
>> <same as above and ./.hidden is not appearing>
>>
>> It looks like "ls -R" is showing some hidden directories but not all.
>>
>> --
>> Ottavio Caruso
>>
>
> man ls
> man ksh
>
>

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