<div>Hey Prof.,</div><br><div>I just want to make sure I'm understanding this correctly before I try to implement something stupid.</div><br><div>When you tell ls to list recursively (-R), it happily does so. However, is it the case that when we reach a symlink to a directory, we do not recursively search that symlink-targeted directory? And that (unless -d is specified) we just list that target directory as you would a non-directory file (apart from the permission/mode string indicating that it's a direcotry)?</div><br><div>Additionally, am I right in saying that it is not possible to hard link a directory, and only a non-directory file?</div><br><div>Thanks,</div><br><div><signature id="local-d4f4314a-a661"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><img alt="" src="https://user-generated.getmailspring.com/asset/NmY5Mjg2ODgtZWMyNy00YjMzLWFmNGItYTlmMDQ1OTAxNzZlL3NpZy1pbml0aWFsLnBuZw.png?t=1565960265401&amp;msw=246&amp;msh=249" width="59" height="60" style="max-width:60px;max-height:60px;margin-right:10px"></td><td><div>Elliot Wasem</div><div style="font-size:0.9em;border-top:1px solid gray;min-width:250px;max-width:300px;margin-top:4px;padding-top:4px"><div><div></div><div><a href="https://link.getmailspring.com/link/DA6308D3-8B8D-4EAF-A41A-73F29B18BCBF@getmailspring.com/0?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Felliotwasem.xyz&amp;recipient=Y3M2MzFhcHVlQGxpc3RzLnN0ZXZlbnMuZWR1">https://elliotwasem.xyz</a></div><div><a href="https://link.getmailspring.com/link/DA6308D3-8B8D-4EAF-A41A-73F29B18BCBF@getmailspring.com/1?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Felliot-wasem%2F&amp;recipient=Y3M2MzFhcHVlQGxpc3RzLnN0ZXZlbnMuZWR1" title="LinkedIn" style="margin-right:8px"><img src="https://www.getmailspring.com/signature-assets/linkedin.gif" width="13" height="13" alt="LinkedIn"></a></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></signature></div><img class="mailspring-open" alt="Sent from Mailspring" width="0" height="0" style="border:0; width:0; height:0;" src="https://link.getmailspring.com/open/DA6308D3-8B8D-4EAF-A41A-73F29B18BCBF@getmailspring.com?me=354e93c1&amp;recipient=Y3M2MzFhcHVlQGxpc3RzLnN0ZXZlbnMuZWR1">