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On Apr 14 21:17, Eric Blake wrote:
> Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
> 
> > The cost of stat'ing a known symlink (which may involve spinning up a disk or 
> > doing a network access) just to color its target was deemed too expensive for 
> > the default.  Coreutils 6.11 is due out this week, with no change in 
> behavior, 
> > but perhaps for 6.12, upstream can add a option to dircolors/ls that requests 
> > coloring symlink targets in spite of the increased cost of the stat.
> > 
> 
> Also, you can use ls -F to force the stat, and hence the coloring.

Using -F is ok for the time being.  While the extra stat call is a big
performance hit, it's also helpful to identify dangling symlinks.  Not
that all uncolored symlinks are dangling but the coloring confines the
selection...


Thanks for your confirmation,
Corinna

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