On Sun 05 Jun 2005 at 05:39:00 +0000, ndehne@gmail.com wrote:
> >How-To-Repeat:
> $ ls -l /lib/libc.so
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  14 Jun  5 06:55 /lib/libc.so -> libc.so.12.127
> $ ls -L /lib/libc.so
> /lib/libc.so
> 
> The following output or similar was expected:
> 
> $ ls -L /lib/libc.so
> libc.so.12.127

The -L option indeed does list the file that the link refers to (but not
its name!), except without -l you don't see it. Example on my system:

$ ls -l /lib/libc.so
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  16 Nov 30  2004 /lib/libc.so@ -> libc.so.12.114.1
$ ls -lL /lib/libc.so
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1120527 Nov 30  2004 /lib/libc.so

The functionality you expect is available from the readlink(1) command:

$ readlink /lib/libc.so
libc.so.12.114.1

-Olaf.
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