Subject: bug#10013: man ls

From: Bob Proulx <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:37:45 -0700

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Do you have a reference for that information?  I always thought ls
> stood for LiSt directory.  The V7 source only says "list file or
> directory".  The man V7 page says "For each directory argument, ls
> lists the contents of the directory; for each file argument, ls
> repeats its name and any other information requested."

Eric Fischer records his history of it here:

  http://tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue48/fischer.html

Bob