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Re: Symlink'ed current directory and FIND
- To: "Lassi A. Tuura" <lassi dot tuura at cern dot ch>
- Subject: Re: Symlink'ed current directory and FIND
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 07:28:28 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: Paul Stodghill <stodghil at cs dot cornell dot edu>, "Cygwin Mailing List \(E-mail\)" <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
--- "Lassi A. Tuura" <lassi.tuura@cern.ch> wrote:
> > Find doesn't dereference symbolic links unless you tell it to.
>
> Yes, but surely it should follow the links to the *current* directory?
Since the directory is a symbolic link then the leaf (i.e.: the '.' directory)
is a symbolic link. Therefore find doesn't dereference it and reports nothing
unless you tell it to -follow the symbolic link.
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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