athityakumar / athityakumar/colorls

Symlinks aren't resolved

Open
#479 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub
Dominant language
Ruby
Stars
5.1k
Forks
396
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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

- Relevant Issues : (none)
- Relevant PRs : (none)
- Type of issue :
- [ ] Installation
- [ ] Font-related
- [x] Feature request
- [ ] Bug in existing feature
- [ ] Developer mode : Code quality / Tests / Documentation

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

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

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.