Make ls exclude symlinks
 

I'm trying to find a way to do 'ls -la' without a bunch of symlinks showing up in the directory listing. The reason is that my home-directory has a bunch of dotfiles symlinked to another directory, and when I type 'ls -la' to see the dotfiles which are not symlinked, the listing is cluttered by a bunch of nasty-looking symlinks. I tried piping ls's output a sed-script and some grepping here and there, but I couldn't find a good way to do it. If anyone of you knows of a simpler way to do it (such as an internal ls-flag :) ), I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.

Check out 'man ls'. I can't do it right now (I'm forced to used a Win Box here) but I remember there is a way to filter what is output.

I forgot to mention that I spend an hour and a half reading the manpage of ls trying different things here and there. I didn't find any useful information to solve my problem there though. Thanks for trying to help anyway.

If you want to get it back to displaying columns:
By the way, this will ignore any file including a "@", so there may be a better way.

If you are using `ls -l` and want to display the file info rather than the link info, just change to `ls -lL`. From `man ls`: