Bug 2722 - `ls -l` should show symbolic link targets
Summary: `ls -l` should show symbolic link targets
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: sftp (show other bugs)
Version: 7.5p1
Hardware: All All
: P5 enhancement
Assignee: Assigned to nobody
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Reported: 2017-05-24 02:34 AEST by Mikhail T.
Modified: 2018-12-29 09:42 AEDT (History)
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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?