ls -l is not behaving as I expect

[Nils Kassube]

Tapas Mishra wrote:
> It is a very silly thing but I now have to ask there is a folder
> which is not having any directories but when I do an ls -l from its
> parent directory
> I just see following
> ls -l www/claroline/
> total 0
> 
> I expect a long format to be displayed for permissions with respect
> to this directory why is that not happening.


From "man ls":

| NAME
|        ls - list directory contents

You asked ls to list the contents of the directory www/claroline/ which 
it did. If you want to list the entry for that directory, try "ls -ld 
www/claroline/" instead.


Nils