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Re: Re: find . -regex '.*js' -type f -exec md5sum '{}' \\; really slow!


On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]  wrote:
>  I'm not sure how symbolic links work with find . -type f, so this might not be a problem.

find ignores symlinks by default; but if you specify -follow, then it
will descend into symbolic links to directories and return symbolic
links to files as matching "-type f".


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