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From: asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: RTFM: was Re: Should find traverse symbolic links?
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Date: 25 Feb 91 19:15:59 GMT
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>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


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