[PLUG] ls -d does not work as it should

[Steve Christiansen]

On 6/25/2018 3:52 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:

> According to 'man ls' the -d option should 'list directories 
> themselves, not their
> contents'. But, here it doesn't work. For example from within ~/:
>
> $ ls -d
> ./
>
> $ ls --directory
> ./
>
>   I doubt this is a Slackware issue and I'm curious why it might not be
> working as expected. Has anyone else run into this issue?
>
> Rich
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Rich,
It's working as expected.
"ls" with no arguments lists the contents of the current directory.
"ls -d" with no other arguments lists the current directory, not its 
contents, which is of course "."

Steve