Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 22:29:30 -0600 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: herbelot@cybercable.fr, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: correction for find(1)'s man page Message-ID: <199901180430.UAA10098@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:57:50 PST." <199901180357.TAA22127@vashon.polstra.com>
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In message <199901180357.TAA22127@vashon.polstra.com>, John Polstra wrote:
} In article <36A0FC11.8B22D0F5@cybercable.fr>,
} Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr> wrote:
} > Hello
} >
} > I was reading the man page for find(1), looking for the precise option
} > to follow symbolic links.
} >
} > This option is -follow, of course, but it is not described in the man
} > page
}
} Huh? The correct options are the first three options described in
} the man page:
} -H The -H option causes the file information and file type (see
} stat(2)) returned for each symbolic link specified on the command
} line to be those of the file referenced by the link, not the link
} itself. If the referenced file does not exist, the file informa-
} tion and type will be for the link itself. File information of
} all symbolic links not on the command line is that of the link
} itself.
What this doesn't explicitly say is that it causes find(1) to actually
follow the symlink and recursively descend the target tree (if the link
points to a directory); I assume that's the behavior the original poster
wanted.
Near the bottom of the find(1) manpage (on my -stable system), is this:
Historically, the -d, -h and -x options were implemented using the pri-
maries ``-depth'', ``-follow'', and ``-xdev''. These primaries always
``-h'' there should read ``-H''; -h is an unknown option to find(1).
--
Jon Hamilton
hamilton@pobox.com
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