When I run the command "ls -L file-name" I expect it to show me the name of the file the link is pointing at. I currently just returns the link name. This seems to have been broken for a while. ls (coreutils) 5.2.1 Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie. Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. I use RedHat 5.x RedHat 6.x. Thanks, Sam Overdorf Intel Unix/LADV