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From: medtron!dt4100c@uunet.uu.net (Derek Terveer)
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Subject: Find that follows symlinks?
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Date: 4 Nov 90 03:00:00 GMT
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Does anyone know of a way to get the find distributed with SunOS 4.x to
follow symlinks in a file system?  If i want to truly find a file on the
file system, i don't want to have to worry about find skipping large
portions of a file system simply because it doesn't want to follow those
links.  I realize that one of the potential problems could be circular
links and infinite loops, but i would like it to be able to be forced to
do this anyway.  Maybe there is a pd program that does this???

I looked at the FM and it did state that find will not follow symlinks.

Derek "Tigger" Terveer
Just the facts, ma'am:		det@medtron.medtronic.com