Re: Problem with the find command

From: Alan Connor (xxxxxx_at_xxxx.xxx)
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:00:56 GMT

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:38:23 GMT, Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>

Then why did

find ~foo/* -name '*.css' -print 2>/dev/null

work?

Alan 

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