On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 09:17:21 -0400 J C Nash <profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: > When I am in a terminal and want to cd to the appropriate folder > I typically type just the first couple of characters then hit tab. > I've noticed that regular directories add the /, but command > completion for the symlinks leaves it off. What shell are you using? Under Bash version 4.4 on Debian Stretch, I get the / when I hit Tab. > I'm assuming that is because the symlink does not have the d flag > available. Symlinks under Linux don't have any flags or permissions associated with them. Their permissions always show up as 0777. The actual permissions and flags are controlled by the pointed-to file. Regards, Dianne.