Re: Problem with the find command
From: Alan Connor (xxxxxx_at_xxxx.xxx)
Date: 07/29/03
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:25:41 GMT
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:34:18 -0700, Erik Max Francis <max@alcyone.com> wrote:
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> Alan Connor wrote:
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>> Then why did
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>> find ~foo/* -name '*.css' -print 2>/dev/null
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>> work?
>
> Because that's a shell glob, and shell globs go through symbolic links.
> It's easy enough to check out. Type
>
> ls -d ~foo
> ls -d ~foo/*
>
Interesting! A directory listing is a symbolic link? But ls -d STILL strikes
me as a useless option (yes, that's bait :-)
Alan
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