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From: jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Question about ``find`` commnad
Message-ID: <3877@orca.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 89 00:22:42 GMT
References: <2087@ginosko.samsung.com> <1588@marvin.Solbourne.COM>
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>In article <2087@ginosko.samsung.com> tikku@imposter.samsung.com (Sanjay Tikku) writes:
>The ``find`` command on our system does not follow the symbolic links which
>is also what the manual says. I thought that there was a ``-follow``
>option to make it explicitly follow the symbolic links. Our version of find
>command does not support that option though. Does anyone know if BSD
>(or any version derived from it) has any option to make it follow the
>symbolic links. Any help on this subject would be helpful.

In article <1588@marvin.Solbourne.COM> dce@Solbourne.com (David Elliott) writes:
>The Tektronix UTek version of find (ca. 1985) had a -follow option.
>I seem to remember that -follow had an argument to it, but I can't
>remember what it's purpose would have been (maybe for following
>symlinks only when they are on the same filesystem?).

An excerpt from the Utek find(1) man page...


     -follow type
                 Always true.  This option determines whether
                 symbolic links to directories will be followed;
                 by default, symbolic links to directories are
                 followed.

                 The option h type means that symbolic links to
                 directories are not to be followed (in other
                 words, follow only ``hard'' links).


The last paragraph pretty well sums it up.  I just looked at the rlog for
find.c, and noticed that David installed the modification himself on 4/26/85.

	-Jeff

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Jeff Beadles		Utek Sustaining Engineering, Tektronix Inc.
jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM