Bug 2722

Summary: `ls -l` should show symbolic link targets
Product: Portable OpenSSH Reporter: Mikhail T. <mi+mindrot>
Component: sftpAssignee: Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: vapier
Priority: P5    
Version: 7.5p1   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Mikhail T. 2017-05-24 02:34:30 AEST 
Doing dir/ls/ls -l in a directory containing symbolic links, one can see the FACT that they are symbolic links, but not their TARGETS:

sftp> ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx    1 foo bar  3 May 22 16:27 mealink
lrwxrwxrwx    1 foo bar  3 May 22 10:34 mealinktoo

Most inconvenient...

Looks like there was an attempt to address this in times of 3.4p1:

https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=103651326517135&w=2

but nothing ever came of it. Why would such a basic feature be missing for so long?