ls -l is not behaving as I expect

[Tapas Mishra]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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
>From man ls for
"       -l     use a long listing format"
So why did -l did not worked when I gave that option?