Regardless, this is patently untrue. How can you compare using ls with and without the -d (print directory entries) switch?

In brief:

[root@bacon test]# ls -la
total 24
drw——- 2 notmike notmike 4096 2009-08-14 08:49 .
drwx–x–x 66 notmike notmike 4096 2009-08-14 08:47 ..
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 0 2009-08-14 08:49 temp1
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 0 2009-08-14 08:49 temp2

[notmike@bacon ~]$ ls –color=none test
temp1 temp2
[notmike@bacon ~]$ ls -l –color=none test
ls: cannot access test/temp2: Permission denied
ls: cannot access test/temp1: Permission denied
total 0
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? temp1
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? temp2
[notmike@bacon ~]$ ls -ld –color=none test
drw——- 2 notmike notmike 4096 2009-08-14 08:49 test
[notmike@bacon ~]$ ls –color=tty test
ls: cannot access test/temp2: Permission denied
ls: cannot access test/temp1: Permission denied
temp1 temp2
[notmike@bacon ~]$ ls -l –color=tty test
ls: cannot access test/temp2: Permission denied
ls: cannot access test/temp1: Permission denied
total 0
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? temp1
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? temp2
[notmike@bacon ~]$ ls -ld –color=tty test
drw——- 2 notmike notmike 4096 2009-08-14 08:49 test

Take note: Works as advertised.

Thanks for pointing that out! I’m not sure why (and don’t have the time to figure it out right now) but WordPress interpreted my double-dash as a single-dash. The temporary fix was to add two more dashes and it displays sort-of right.

I would consider the -F option redundant to the color output, but actually prefer it if you’re looking for an indication of the file types.

Thanks for the comment.