GNU bug report logs - #9637
ls appends an indicator even if one is already present (--indicator-style=classify)

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Philip Ganchev <phil.ganchev <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Philip Ganchev <phil.ganchev <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: ls appends an indicator even if one is already present
	(--indicator-style=classify)
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:42:09 +0300

"Ls --indicator-style=classify" always appends a slash to the names of
directories. For example:

ls -d */

dir1// dir2//

ls -d */////

dir1////// dir2//////

Ls should check if an indicator is already present after the end of
the file name, and append it only if it is not.
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 294 days ago.

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