asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) (02/26/91)
>In article <1991Feb25.130613.2553@phri.nyu.edu> roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: >> I was surprised to observe today that if you do "find dir ..." and >>dir is a symbolic link to a directory, the directory isn't entered. There is an option to find (at least under dynix's version of BSD4.3) called -follow. This option allows the descent of find into symlink directories. The Grand Master Bruce
rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) (02/26/91)
In article <6817@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) writes: ?>In article <1991Feb25.130613.2553@phri.nyu.edu> roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: ?>> I was surprised to observe today that if you do "find dir ..." and ?>>dir is a symbolic link to a directory, the directory isn't entered. ?There is an option to find (at least under dynix's version of BSD4.3) ?called -follow. This option allows the descent of find into symlink ?directories. ? The Grand Master ? Bruce The answer is no, find should not traverse symlinks. Unless you tell it to. GNU find also uses -follow. And BTW, Sequent has yet to produce a version of BSD4.3. For a good time, see the discussion in comp.sys.sequent. -- [rbj@uunet 1] stty sane unknown mode: sane