In Linux, how to ls -l a directory and not the contents of that directory?

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Published on 2010-05-17T07:21:46Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 7:30 UTC
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For example, if I have a directory containing files file1 and file2, and a directory dir1, then "ls -l file1" will show details just for file1. Doing the same thing for dir1 will instead show the contents of dir1. Is there a way to treat dir1 like file1?

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