Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature?

Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
19 Nov 2001 19:43:00 +0200


jas88@cam.ac.uk (James A Sutherland) wrote on 19.11.01 in <E165qq7-0003QD-00@mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk>:

> [james@dax p2i]$ ls test
> ls: test/file: Permission denied
> [james@dax p2i]$ ls -l test
> ls: test/file: Permission denied
> total 0
>
> (There is something incredibly stupid about the first one: ls is unable to,
> er, read the name of the named file?!)

Try 'ls --color=none'. Then go read 'info ls'.

MfG Kai
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