Re: Problem with the find command

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin_at_level3.com)
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:38:23 GMT

In article <Pine.GSO.4.02A.10307291726110.10598-100000@vega.soi.city.ac.uk>,
Lekeas GK <cj571@soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I was trying to find all css files under my directory and I noticed that
>the following commands worked fine:
>
>find . -name '*.css' -print 2>/dev/null
>find ~foo/* -name '*.css' -print 2>/dev/null
>
>but the following ones didn't:
>
>find ~foo -name '*.css' -print 2>/dev/null
>find /homes/foo -name '*.css' -print 2>/dev/null
>
>Is the search not meant to be recursive by default?

Find recurses into directories by default (that's its primary purpose).
I'll bet ~foo and /homes/foo is a symbolic link, not a directory; it
doesn't recurses into symlinks, even if they point to directories. 

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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
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