athityakumar / athityakumar/colorls
Symlinks aren't resolved
- Dominant language
- Ruby
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Description
### Description
When I'm executing it in a directory with a symlink pointing to a directory in it, it just prints the symlink as a file, when passing the flag `--tree` it's also displayed as a file and not as a directory with the contents of the directory it's pointing ro
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- Type of issue :
- [ ] Installation
- [ ] Font-related
- [x] Feature request
- [ ] Bug in existing feature
- [ ] Developer mode : Code quality / Tests / Documentation
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the behavior in the CLI with a directory symlink, both normally and with the --tree flag. Trace how the CLI identifies and displays the symlink; done means a symlink to a directory is treated as a directory and its contents are displayed with --tree.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- ruby
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100