'ls' hangs FC6

[Steve Searle]

Around 08:13pm on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 (UK time), Mark Haney scrawled:

> Now here's something strange.  My alias is set as:
> 
> alias ls='ls --color=tty', which based on looking at my other Fedora 
> boxes is standard, methinks.  However, if I do a /bin/ls of any 
> directory that hangs with 'ls' only, it works perfectly.  If I do not 
> use the full path (i.e. ls <dir> instead of /bin/ls <dir>) it hangs.

What does "which ls" show?  and does /bin/ls --color=tty hang?

Steve

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