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ls -fA -> still . and ..

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30963: closed (ls -fA -> still . and ..)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 22:07:02 +0000

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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.

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