Displaying the contents on an external link

You can display the contents of an external link by appending the "extlink" sequence to the external link path name. This permits the user to inspect the contents of the external link with the ls -l command.

This example shows how to display the attributes and contents of the external link /samples/linkfile:

ls -l /samples/linkfile,"extlink"
lrwxrwxrwx  1 user1 13 Jun 17 20:43 /samples/linkfile ->USER1.MVSFILE

This example shows how to display the attributes of the MVS target data set USER1.MVSFILE:

ls -l /samples/linkfile
-rw-rw-rw-  1 root  2112 Sep 28 13:50 /samples/linkfile