[comp.unix.wizards] Should "ls -Rdl" traverse directories?

lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) (05/13/89)

On a related note, one thing I find irksome about the SYSV ls is that:

	$ ls -Rld

is the same as:

	$ ls -ld

I would like a recursive "ls -ld" this way instead of using:

	$ find . -type | xargs ls -ld

What I find even more irksome is that the -R option is there in the first
place!  If you have to put it in, at least get it right!
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Larry Cipriani, att!cbnews!lvc or lvc@cbnews.att.com
"Life is not a seminar." -- Thomas Sowell

guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (05/13/89)

>What I find even more irksome is that the -R option is there in the first
>place!  If you have to put it in, at least get it right!

The BSD version does it the same way; I tried compiling the vanilla
4.3BSD version (just in case it was changed in SunOS, although I didn't
remember it being so changed), and it also treats "ls -Rld" just like
"ls -ld".