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ls -fA -> still . and ..

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>

Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:28:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: ls -fA -> still . and ..
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 11:27:28 -0600

$ mkdir foo
$ cd foo
$ \ls -fA
.  ..
$

I rather expected this output to be empty. -f enables -a, fine, but it
seems like the -A should override the -a, since it's specified after?

I guess it has nothing to do with -f in particular.
\ls -aA also shows . and ..; maybe it shouldn't?
Not sure, though ... --thanks, karl.
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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>, 30963-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30963: ls -fA -> still . and ..
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:06:19 -0700

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On 03/27/2018 10:27 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
> ls -aA also shows . and ..; maybe it shouldn't?

You're right, it shouldn't. This was a bug I introduced in 2004 and I 
think you're the first to report it (!). In my defense, it wasn't 
officially a bug until POSIX.1-2008 came out and specified that -a and 
-A should override each other. Anyway, thanks. I installed the attached 
patch.


[0001-ls-A-now-overrides-a.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: 30963 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 
 Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Subject: Re: bug#30963: ls -fA -> still . and ..
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:50:21 -0700

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 03/27/2018 10:27 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
>>
>> ls -aA also shows . and ..; maybe it shouldn't?
>
> You're right, it shouldn't. This was a bug I introduced in 2004 and I think
> you're the first to report it (!). In my defense, it wasn't officially a bug
> until POSIX.1-2008 came out and specified that -a and -A should override
> each other. Anyway, thanks. I installed the attached patch.

Nice! Thank you both.
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